{"id":26177,"date":"2026-06-30T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26177"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:46:35","slug":"what-is-causing-insurers-to-leave-medicare-advantage-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26177","title":{"rendered":"What is causing insurers to leave Medicare Advantage markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Major insurers, including UnitedHealthcare and Humana, have reduced or exited markets in dozens of counties in 2026. Even if you are happy with your Medicare Advantage plans, a new study published in JAMA suggests that the stability of Medicare Advantage plans is starting to look less certain. \u00a0Kristin Hitchcock, writing for AOL.com, reports on what&#8217;s causing insurers to leave Medicare Advantage markets and who appears to be most affected. Read Ms. Hitchcock\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/1-10-medicare-advantage-members-150500938.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFtUjm012Q-TS7nOOU_ckcJZRPRn4DBHrmHe496xlp1npFKj_p5mW-brlo2jG7nG9ywte3WahI0aFOQcPT4CVjQF8WJ2Hk4yX7P9G-cuuk0JmYFirMedHl3w3lOJXVw6CqUP6yVELVButEWhUBaQnlneScE210Dg9BqMyMlu-zOr\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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>Major insurers, including UnitedHealthcare and Humana, have reduced or exited markets in dozens of counties in 2026. Even if you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,200,9],"tags":[80,238,62,94],"class_list":["post-26177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26177","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=26177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26179,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26177\/revisions\/26179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}