About one in 10 Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees, roughly 2.9 million people, will be forced to disenroll from their plan in 2026, following a spike in MA plans leaving the market, a study showed. The mean forced disenrollment rate for MA beneficiaries jumped from 1% in 2018-2024 to 6.9% in 2025, and then to 10% in 2026, reported Mark K. Meiselbach, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and co-authors in a research letter in JAMA.
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Source: https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicare/119928