{"id":25368,"date":"2025-12-31T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25368"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:00:52","slug":"medicare-advantage-plans-being-dropped-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25368","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage Plans Being Dropped in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">With Medicare Advantage (MA) plans covering more than half of U.S. seniors, decisions by hospitals and health systems to terminate contracts can be a cause for alarm. In a post on Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review, 16 such terminations effective in 2026 are highlighted, along with a link to similar changes from 2023 forward. Check out this list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/16-health-systems-dropping-medicare-advantage-plans-2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/16-health-systems-dropping-medicare-advantage-plans-2026\/\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><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.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Medicare Advantage (MA) plans covering more than half of U.S. seniors, decisions by hospitals and health systems to terminate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-25368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25370,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions\/25370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}