{"id":25107,"date":"2025-11-04T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25107"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:55:08","slug":"what-you-can-do-if-your-medicare-advantage-insurer-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25107","title":{"rendered":"What You Can Do If Your Medicare Advantage Insurer Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Insurers are reducing the number of Medicare Advantage health plans offered in 2026. However, analysis from Investopedia found that the Medicare Advantage marketplace \u201cwhile 1,949 counties in the US lost at least one Medicare Advantage plan in 2026, 798 counties gained at least one.\u201d What if you live in one of the counties that lost a Medicare Advantage plan? Jeanine Skowronski, writing for Investopedia, provided a helpful guideline on what to do. Read Ms. Skowronski\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/insurers-are-cutting-medicare-advantage-in-2026-how-hard-is-your-county-being-hit-11842858\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-14819\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dreamstime_m_45697802health-insurance-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurers are reducing the number of Medicare Advantage health plans offered in 2026. However, analysis from Investopedia found that the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,9,15],"tags":[80,61,62,221,65,94],"class_list":["post-25107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-open-enrollment","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25108,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25107\/revisions\/25108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}