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Covered CA’s 2025 rates, plans to help more Californians pay for health insurance

by admineco
August 2, 2024
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SACRAMENTO — Covered California announced its health plans and rates for the 2025 coverage year with a preliminary weighted average rate increase of 7.9 percent.

The rate change can be attributed to many factors, including a continued rise in health care use, increases in pharmacy expenditures, the rising cost of care, labor shortages and other issues affecting the health care industry.

Because of the robust financial help available to Covered California enrollees, many will see a small impact, if any, to their monthly cost. Covered California, with the support of Gov. Newsom and the California Legislature, has worked to reduce the impact of increased consumer costs in 2025 by providing more support for its state-enhanced cost-sharing reduction (CSR) program, which will eliminate deductibles and lower the cost of care for over a million Californians.

“The stability of Covered California’s marketplace helped us deliver a lower rate change than last year, and the expansion of the state’s innovative cost-sharing reduction program will bring even greater affordability to our consumers in 2025,” said Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman. “Combined with the continued enhanced federal subsidies through the Inflation Reduction Act, Californians will have more assistance paying for their health insurance than ever before. And with Affordable Care Act coverage now being made available for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients beginning Nov. 1, a record number of Californians will have access to coverage.”

California’s individual market rate change for 2025

While increases in the cost of health care continue to drive premium increases, the rates are more than a one-year story.

Over the past five years, these trends — combined with a big jump in enrollment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, increased federal and state subsidies, and implementation of the state penalty for going without coverage — have affected premium levels for Covered California in different ways.

With steady enrollment, a strong marketplace and active negotiations with health insurance carriers to ensure consumers are receiving the best value, Covered California has held the compounded average annual rate increase over the past half decade to just 5 percent.

Table 1: California’s individual market rate changes

Year202120222023202420255-Year Compounded Average
Weighted Average0.5%1.8%5.6%9.6%7.9%5.0%

The 7.9 percent increase reflects an average of proposed rates across all health insurers that offer individual plans. Rates can differ greatly by plan and region (see Table 2: Covered California Individual Market Rate Changes by Rating Region and Table 3: California Individual Market Rate Changes by Carrier).

The preliminary rates have been filed with California’s Department of Managed Health Care and are subject to final review and public comment. The final rates will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.

New State funding leads to highest levels ever of financial help in 2025

In 2024, California implemented its first-ever state-funded enhanced cost-sharing reduction (CSR) program. For Californians at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level, the program improved health care affordability and access to care by eliminating deductibles in all three Silver CSR plans. It also lowered generic drug costs and copays for medical visits and reduced other out-of-pocket costs. To date, over 800,000 Californians have benefited from the program. 

This year, Gov. Newsom and the California Legislature increased the amount of state funds available for the enhanced cost-sharing reduction program, appropriating $165 million to expand eligibility for it. As a result, in 2025 Californians with incomes above 200 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) will be eligible to enroll in an Enhanced Silver 73 plan with no deductibles and reduced out-of-pocket costs, while those under 200 percent FPL will continue to have access to higher levels of benefits. This change will further reduce financial barriers to accessing health care and simplify the process of shopping for health insurance.

For example, a 21-year-old in Los Angeles County at 150 percent of the federal poverty level, or an annual income of $22,590, with an Enhanced Silver 87 plan will continue to have a $0 premium after subsidies, in addition to prescription drugs as low as $5 per month and no deductibles.

A family of four in Kern County at 325 percent of the federal poverty level, or an annual income of $101,400, with a Silver plan could expect a premium change of about $20 per month, but they would now qualify for Covered California’s expanded cost-sharing reduction Silver 73 plan in 2025. They would have no deductibles, and a visit to their primary care physician would drop from $50 to $35 per visit, among other benefits. 

In fact, with the state-enhanced cost-sharing reduction subsidies in place, anyone who chooses a Silver cost-sharing reduction plan with Covered California will have no deductibles. 

“With record enrollment in our 11th year, the Affordable Care Act is thriving in California,” Altman said. “Nearly 90 percent of Covered California’s enrollees are receiving financial help, and many are paying $10 or less per month for their health insurance. In 2025, many people who receive financial help will see no change to their monthly premiums, and many more will have their deductibles eliminated entirely.”

Nearly 25 percent of current enrollees are estimated to have a $0 premium in 2025, a jump from 20 percent in 2024. And if their enrollment and income level remain steady, nearly 60 percent of current enrollees will see no change, or they will see a reduction in their monthly premium with the financial help they receive.

Increased competition, more consumer choice  

Covered California’s strong enrollment, combined with one of the healthiest consumer pools in the nation, continues to attract health carriers, which has resulted in increased competition and choices that benefit Californians.

In 2025, with 12 health carriers providing insurance across the state, all Californians will have two or more choices, 92 percent will be able to choose three carriers or more and 85 percent will have four or more carriers to choose from.

Some changes for 2025 include Kaiser Permanente’s partial entrance into Monterey County, as Valley Health Plan exits the region. Kaiser will cover 55 percent of the enrollees in Monterey County, which includes 15 ZIP codes.

Opportunities for Californians to enroll in coverage for 2025

  • Covered California’s open-enrollment period, when consumers can sign up for coverage for all of 2025, begins on Nov. 1 and runs through January 31, 2025.
  • While the rate changes and increased choices will not go into effect until coverage begins on Janury 1, Californians who experience major life events, such as losing health coverage, getting married, having a baby or permanently moving to California, can enroll now during the ongoing special-enrollment period. 
  • Also beginning on November 1, DACA recipients will be able to enroll in Covered California marketplace plans. Estimates indicate there are about 40,000 DACA recipients in Californian who will be newly eligible for coverage. Covered California will also have a special-enrollment period that begins on Nov. 1 that will allow DACA recipients to sign up for a plan throughout the remainder of the year. Those who apply in November can have their plan start as early as December 1.
  • The Medi-Cal to Covered California Enrollment Program will continue to automatically enroll individuals in one of its low-cost health plans when they lose Medi-Cal coverage and gain eligibility for financial help through Covered California. Through early June of 2024, the program has helped 160,000 Californians remain insured over the past year.

Table 2: Covered California individual market rate changes by rating region

Rating RegionTotal enrollmentAvg. rate changeShop and switch
Statewide Total1,757,8127.9% -3.27% 
Region 1Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne and Yuba counties63,56210.0%6.9%
Region 2Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties60,5957.7%-1.4%
Region 3Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties99,3038.7%-2.5%
Region 4San Francisco County36,3107.7%-0.6%
Region 5Contra Costa County55,0217.6%1.3%
Region 6Alameda County76,3897.9%2.6%
Region 7Santa Clara County72,2818.5%-0.5%
Region 8San Mateo County30,6027.3%0.1%
Region 9Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties29,20115.7%-2.5%
Region 10San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Mariposa and Tulare counties85,6749.3%5.8%
Region 11Fresno, Kings and Madera counties43,52411.7%3.6%
Region 12San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties79,9647.4%1.0%
Region 13Mono, Inyo and Imperial counties14,5466.6%3.6%
Region 14Kern County26,1796.6%-0.1%
Region 15Los Angeles County (northeast)232,9617.2%-7.7%
Region 16Los Angeles County (southwest)292,7437.0%-11.1%
Region 17San Bernardino and Riverside counties167,5225.3%-7.2%
Region 18Orange County163,7469.6%0.1%
Region 19San Diego County127,6898.1%-4.5%

Table 3: California individual market rate changes by carrier

CarrierWeighted Average Rate Change
Aetna CVS Health15.4%
Anthem Blue Cross12.7%
Blue Shield of California8.5%
Balance by CCHP4.0%
Health Net6.4%
Inland Empire Health Plan1.8%
Kaiser Permanente6.5%
LA Care Health Plan6.3%
Molina Healthcare6.4%
Sharp Health Plan5.9%
Valley Health Plan 9.7%
Western Health Advantage4.3%
Overall7.9%
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