Medicare Advantage in 2026: Enrollment Update and Key Trends
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage, the private plan alternative to traditional Medicare, has increased steadily over the past two decades, with...
Cost Concerns and Coverage Changes: A Follow-Up Survey of ACA Marketplace Enrollees
About the Survey At the end of 2025, despite a government shutdown over the policy, the enhanced premium tax credits...
Most Medicare Beneficiaries Affected by Plan Terminations in 2025 Have Robust Medicare Advantage Options in 2026
After years of rapid increases, Medicare Advantage enrollment growth slowed in 2025, a trend that continued in 2026. The number...
ACA Marketplace Enrollment is Down in 2026—But All of the Data Isn’t in Yet
2026 marks the first year since 2020 that enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces do not have access to...
State-Based Efforts Will Provide Limited Relief from Enhanced Tax Credit Expiration
After failed Senate votes late last year and no subsequent bipartisan agreement, the enhanced premium tax credits expired as of January 1. Some states, particularly those operating...
Recent Trends in Commercial Health Insurance Market Concentration
Commercial health insurance markets remain highly concentrated across coverage types. However, the individual market, which consists mostly of the ACA...
What to Know About the Medicare Open Enrollment Period and Medicare Coverage Options
Medicare is the federal health insurance program for 69 million people ages 65 and over and younger adults with long-term...
Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker
Note: The data on unwinding renewal outcomes presented below were last updated on September 12, 2024; since most states have...
New CMS data suggest future ACA market turmoil
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week released new data fueling a narrative of rampant broker fraud...
CMS sued over Trump administration’s ACA final rule
Doctors for America, the Main Street Alliance and three cities have sued the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...
