As many major insurers scale back on Medicare Advantage, some players are exiting the market entirely.
Here’s a look at the insurers that are fully backing out:
Editor’s note: This is not an exhaustive list. It will continue to be updated this year.
1. Michigan Medicine is discontinuing its health plan, which covers over 9,000 MA members.
2. Ochsner Health Plan will no longer offer MA plans in 2026.
3. Blue Cross Blue Shield Vermont is fully exiting the MA market next year but will continue offering Medicare supplement plans.
4. Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Health will close its insurance branches at the end of the year. Health Alliance and FirstCarolinaCare will no longer provide MA plans, as a result.
5. Cigna sold its MA business to Health Care Service Corp. for $3.3 billion earlier this year.
6. UCare asked CMS to mutually terminate MA plans for 2026. The insurer had 158,000 MA members across Minnesota and parts of western Wisconsin.
7. Samaritan Health Plans of Corvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services will still offer its dual-eligible special needs plan but will pull out of MA markets in 2026.
8. Sentara Health Plans will still offer its dual-eligible special needs plan but will not offer Medicare Advantage, MA prescription drug HMO, or C-SNP plans in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida in 2026.
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