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2021 Individual Market Health Insurance Enrollment Periods

Updated Aug 18, 2021 

This chart describes the regular and special enrollment periods when individuals may sign up for health insurance coverage through either the federal marketplace (healthcare.gov, which 36 states use) or state-operated marketplaces (used by 14 states and Washington, DC).  

Marketplace  Original 2021 Open Enrollment Period  2021 COVID-19 Special Enrollment Period (SEP) 
Federally facilitated
marketplace
(36 states)
 
Nov. 1 – Dec. 15, 2020  Feb. 15 – May 15, 2021* 
State-Operated Marketplaces     
California  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 31, 2021  Feb. 1 – May 15, 2021 and April 12- Dec. 31, 2021** 
Colorado  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 15, 2021  Feb.8 – Aug. 15, 2021  
Connecticut  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 15, 2021  Feb. 15  – April 15, 2021 and May 1- Oct 31, 2021  
DC  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 31, 2021  Jan.1, 2021 – Jan. 31, 2022*** 
Idaho  Nov. 1 – Dec. 31, 2020  Mar. 1-  April 30, 2021  
Maryland  Nov. 1 – Dec. 15, 2020  Jan. 1 – Aug 15, 2021 
Massachusetts  Nov. 1, 2020 – July 23, 2021   
Minnesota  Nov. 1 – Dec.  22, 2020   Feb. 16 – July 16, 2021 
Nevada  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 15, 2021  Feb. 15 – August 15, 2021 
New Jersey  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 31, 2021  Feb. 1 – Nov. 30, 2021  
New York  Nov. 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021    
Pennsylvania  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 15, 2021   Feb. 15 – Aug. 15, 2021 
Rhode Island  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 23, 2021  Feb.1 – Aug. 15, 2021 
Vermont  Nov. 1, 2020 – Dec. 15, 2020   Feb. 16 –Oct. 1, 2021 
Washington State  Nov. 1, 2020 – Jan. 15, 2021  Feb. 15 – Aug. 15, 2021  

*Heathcare.gov opened a special enrollment period as a result of President Biden’s Jan. 28, 2021?executive order?designed to strengthen Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act enrollment.?? 

**California closed its COVID-19 SEP on May 15, 2021 and reopened a new, separate SEP in response to the American Rescue Plan Act on April 12, 2021. 

***Washington, DC will extend its COVID-19 SEP through the last day of the DC Health Link Individual & Family 2022 Open Enrollment Period (January 31, 2022), unless the District of Columbia COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), as declared by the Mayor, is still in place on that date, in which case the SEP is available until the end of the month in which the PHE ends.  

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