Concentration in Health Insurance Markets

This interactive chart provides details on 1) enrollment in the overall individual market and the individual exchanges as measured by covered life-years, and 2) covered life-years in each state's individual exchange as a proportion of covered life-years in the overall individual market from 2015 through 2022.



New Mexico

Source: GAO analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). | GAO-25-107194


The table below displays data for the selected state. Click here to download the data used in this graphic.



State Year Covered life-years, individual exchange Covered life-years, individual market Individual exchange covered life-years as a proportion of overall individual market (%)
New Mexico 2015 39,328 77,105 51
New Mexico 2016 42,803 71,766 60
New Mexico 2017 42,330 65,329 65
New Mexico 2018 40,657 58,479 70
New Mexico 2019 37,651 52,556 72
New Mexico 2020 36,795 44,441 83
New Mexico 2021 39,664 49,304 80
New Mexico 2022 34,926 43,434 80

  • We calculated the size of each market from 2015 through 2022 using covered life-years that issuers reported to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services or states. This measure is calculated as the average number of lives insured each month in the reporting year. Rather than a point-in-time measurement, this measure accounts for changes in enrollment that occur throughout the year.
  • Covered life-years is one of several ways to measure health insurance enrollment, so it may differ from other measures of market size.
  • We rounded market share values of less than 0.5 percent to zero.