Most Medicare Supplement plans faced falling enrollment from 2019-20, according to a report from America's Health Insurance Plans' Center for Policy Research.
The March 10 report found that the only Medigap plans to add beneficiaries in 2020 were plans G, D and N.
These Medigap plans saw the biggest drops in enrollment in 2020:
- Plan I: 24 percent decrease, loss of 17,837 enrollees
- Plan C: 13 percent decrease, loss of 82,092 enrollees
- Plan B: 12 percent decrease, loss of 24,199 enrollees
- Plan H: 12 percent decrease, loss of 3,755 enrollees
- Plan E: 11 percent decrease, loss of 5,718 enrollees
- Plan J: 10 percent decrease, loss of 38,971 enrollees
- Plan M: 9 percent decrease, loss of 369 enrollees
- Plan A: 8 percent decrease, loss of 8,110 enrollees
- Plan F: 8 percent decrease, loss of 565,500 enrollees
- Plan L: 8 percent decrease, loss of 3,597 enrollees
- Plan K: 5 percent decrease, loss of 4,196 enrollees
These Medigap plans saw the biggest increases in enrollment in 2020:
- Plan G: 22 percent increase, gain of 660,050 enrollees
- Plan D: 2 percent increase, gain of 2,782 enrollees
- Plan N: 0 percent increase, gain of 2,745 enrollees
Plan G covers all Medicare deductible and coinsurance amounts, except the Part B deductible. Plan G also has a high-deductible option, the deductible for which was $2,340 in 2020.
Plan D is similar to Plan G, except Plan D does not cover excess charges for Part B services.
Plan N is a new standardized plan with predictable cost-sharing amounts.