Maine: coverME wraps up 2025 Open Enrollment Period w/over 64K QHP enrollees, up 4.6% y/y

via CoverME.gov:

Plan Selection Snapshot

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of the Health Insurance Marketplace (OHIM) will release biweekly updates on plan selections through CoverME.gov, Maine’s Health Insurance Marketplace.  

Plan selections provide a snapshot of activity by new and returning consumers who have selected a plan for 2025. “Plan selections” become “enrollments” once consumers have paid their first monthly premium to begin insurance. These numbers are subject to change as consumers may modify or cancel plans after their initial selection.   

The deadline to select a plan for coverage beginning January 1, 2025 is December 15, 2024. Consumers who select a plan between December 16, 2024 and January 15, 2025 will have coverage beginning February 1, 2025.

 CoverME.gov Activity Through January 16, 2025

This is the final 2025 OEP update for Maine, and while I'm glad they posted it, it's a bit irritating that they chose to include the extra day (Jan. 16th) instead of cutting it off the same day as the OEP deadline of Jan. 15th.

That being said, this pushes Maine's final total up over 1,500 higher than the 63,139 QHP selections reported as of January 11th last week.

It also means that Maine wrapped up the 2025 OEP up 4.6% over last year's final total of 62,586 (ok, possibly 4.5% higher if you assume a hundred or so of those trickled in on the 16th).