{"id":10513,"date":"2026-02-16T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/medicare-advantage-membership-growth-2026-unitedhealth-humana-aetna\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:02:45","slug":"medicare-advantage-membership-growth-2026-unitedhealth-humana-aetna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/medicare-advantage-membership-growth-2026-unitedhealth-humana-aetna\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Medicare Advantage growth dwindles for a second straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Medicare Advantage growth dwindles for a second straight year
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The Medicare Advantage program continues to bring in more older adults and people with disabilities, but not nearly at the same rates from just a few years ago.<\/p>\n

Almost 35.5 million people were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan as of Feb. 1, up roughly 3% from 34.4 million<\/a> at the same time in 2025, according to new federal data analyzed by STAT. The growth during Medicare\u2019s annual enrollment window, which runs from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7, stagnated \u2014 with enrollment increasing just 1%.<\/p>\n

By comparison, annual enrollment growth in Medicare Advantage ranged between 7% and 10% between 2017 and 2024, according to historical data analysis<\/a> by STAT.<\/p>\n

Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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STAT+: Medicare Advantage growth dwindles for a second straight year The Medicare Advantage program continues to bring in more older adults and people with disabilities, but not nearly at the same rates from just a few years ago. Almost 35.5 million people were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan as of Feb. 1, up roughly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,2157,2288,2213,2266,2151,2144,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cms","category-health-insurance","category-insurance","category-medicare-advantage","category-policy","category-politics","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}