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Description of Business and Significant Accounting Policies
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2026
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Description of Business and Significant Accounting Policies DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Description of Business

GoHealth (the “Company”) is a health insurance marketplace and Medicare-focused digital health company whose purpose is to compassionately ensure consumers’ peace of mind when making healthcare decisions so they can focus on living life. With a widely scalable end-to-end platform in the Medicare landscape, GoHealth believes it is uniquely positioned as a trusted partner to the 68.0 million Medicare-eligible Americans, as well as the 11,000 Americans becoming eligible each day, as they navigate one of life's most important purchasing decisions. For many of these consumers, enrolling in a health insurance plan is confusing and difficult, and seemingly small differences between health plans may lead to significant out-of-pocket costs or lack of access to critical providers and medicines. GoHealth aims to simplify the process by offering education, comparison guidance, transparency and choice. This includes providing a large selection of leading health plan choices, advice informed by consumers’ specific needs, transparency of health plan benefits and fit, assistance accessing available government subsidies and a high-touch consumer care team.

GoHealth offers Medicare plans, including, but not limited to, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and prescription drug plans. Its proprietary technology platform integrates artificial intelligence and modern machine-learning algorithms, powered by over two decades of insurance purchasing behavior, to reimagine the process of matching a health plan to a consumer’s specific needs. GoHealth’s unbiased, technology-driven marketplace coupled with highly-skilled licensed agents has facilitated the enrollment of millions of consumers in Medicare plans since its inception. Health plan partners benefit from the GoHealth platform by gaining access to the large and rapidly growing Medicare-eligible population. GoHealth believes health plan partners utilize its large-scale data, technology and efficient marketing processes to maximize scale and reduce their cost of submission, compared to health plan partner-employed agent workforces.
GoHealth believes its streamlined, consumer-centric Encompass operating model drives both high-quality enrollments and a strong consumer experience. The Company strives to be a trusted, high-quality enrollment partner for both consumers and health plan partners.

Refer to the Liquidity and Going Concern section in this Note 1 for management’s assessment of the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies
The Company was incorporated in Delaware on March 27, 2020 for the purpose of facilitating an initial public offering (the “IPO”) and other related transactions in order to carry on the business of GHH, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its controlled subsidiaries (collectively, “GHH, LLC”). Following the IPO and pursuant to a reorganization into a holding company structure, the Company is a holding company and its principal asset is a controlling equity interest in GHH, LLC. As the sole managing member of GHH, LLC, the Company operates and controls all of the business and affairs of GHH, LLC, and through GHH, LLC and its subsidiaries, conducts its business. As a result, the Company consolidates GHH, LLC’s financial results in its Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and reports non-controlling interests for the economic interest in GHH, LLC held by the Continuing Equity Owners.
The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information, but do not include all information and footnote disclosures required under GAAP for annual financial statements. The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes included in the Company’s 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2026. In the opinion of management, the interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair presentation of the Company’s financial position, results of operations and cash flows as of the dates and for the periods presented. All intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated in consolidation.
There have been no material changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies from those disclosed in the notes to the Company’s audited Consolidated Financial Statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025, which were included in the Company’s 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Liquidity and Going Concern
These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applicable to a going concern, which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business within twelve months after the date that these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are issued.

Under the Company’s Superpriority Credit Agreement and Amendment No. 14 to its existing term loan (as defined and described further in Note 3, “Long-Term Debt”), the Company is required to meet certain financial covenants, including a minimum liquidity covenant, and make scheduled principal and interest payments. As of March 31, 2026, the Company was in compliance with all of its financial covenants; however, management’s current financial projections indicate that, based on the Company’s current business plan, it is probable that the Company will be unable to maintain compliance with its liquidity covenant within the twelve months after these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are issued, unless the mitigating plans described below are implemented successfully. In the event the Company is unable to meet its liquidity financial covenant or make scheduled principal and interest payments, the Company’s lenders may not waive compliance and could elect to declare an event of default under the Superpriority Credit Agreement and Amendment No. 14 and accelerate the repayment of the obligations thereunder. The Company does not expect it would have sufficient liquidity to repay its outstanding debt obligations if they are accelerated. As a result, the Company’s lenders could seek to exercise rights and remedies available to them, including enforcing against the collateral securing these debt obligations.

The Company is engaged in ongoing discussions with its lenders and other stakeholders regarding strategic alternatives to address the Company’s capital structure and liquidity position. Such alternatives may involve a change of control or other restructuring of the Company. In addition, management has implemented and continues to implement various operational initiatives that include further cost savings measures. The outcome of the Company’s discussions with its lenders and other stakeholders is uncertain and there can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in implementing its operational initiatives. In addition, the Company’s ongoing discussions with its lenders and other stakeholders may be adversely affected by any default under, or acceleration of, the Company’s debt obligations. In such event, as described above, the Company’s lenders could seek to exercise rights and remedies available to them. Because of the uncertainty of (i) successfully completing operational initiatives to comply with the minimum liquidity covenant and (ii) the outcome of the discussions with the Company’s lenders and other stakeholders, management has concluded there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within twelve months after the date that these Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are issued.

The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements do not include any adjustments to the carrying amounts and classification of assets, liabilities and reported expenses that may be necessary if the Company were unable to continue as a going concern.

Use of Estimates
The preparation of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make certain estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and various other assumptions that management believes are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Seasonality
The Medicare annual enrollment period (“AEP”) occurs from October 15th to December 7th. As a result, and in general, the Company experiences an increase in the number of Submissions during the fourth quarter and an increase in expense related to the Submissions during the third and fourth quarters. Additionally, as a result of the annual Medicare Advantage open enrollment period that occurs from January 1st to March 31st, Submissions are typically second-highest in the first quarter. The second and third quarters are known as special election periods, during which Submissions are typically lowest. A significant portion of the Company’s marketing and advertising expenses is driven by the number of health insurance applications submitted through the Company. Marketing and advertising expenses are generally higher in the fourth quarter during AEP, but because commissions from approved consumers are paid to the Company over time, the Company’s operating cash flows could be adversely impacted by a substantial increase in marketing and advertising expenses as a result of a higher volume of Submissions during the fourth quarter or positively impacted by a substantial decline in marketing and advertising expenses as a result of lower volume of Submissions during the fourth quarter.
Starting in 2025, the usual Medicare enrollment seasonality became more pronounced mainly due to regulatory changes affecting enrollment rules for dual-eligible beneficiaries and those receiving Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidies (“LIS”). In 2025, CMS eliminated the special enrollment period that allowed dual-eligible and LIS beneficiaries to enroll in Medicare Advantage plans quarterly. These regulatory changes restricted eligibility to enroll in or switch between Medicare Advantage plans outside of AEP for this group.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Recent Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software. This pronouncement updates the guidance on capitalization of internal-use software, including removing the development stages utilized for evaluation of when certain activities are capital eligible. The ASU instead provides that an entity is required to start capitalizing eligible software development costs when (1) management has authorized and committed to funding the software project and (2) it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended, which is referred to as the “probable-to-complete recognition threshold”. This probable-to- complete threshold includes an evaluation of whether there is significant uncertainty associated with the development activities of the software. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impacts this amendment will have on our internal-use software capitalization policy.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement: Reporting Comprehensive Income-Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”), which requires disclosure about the types of costs and expenses included in certain expense captions presented on the income statement. The new disclosure requirements are effective for the Company’s annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the impact of this pronouncement on our related disclosures.