How is Medicare Advantage developing in Arkansas?
Arkansas's MA penetration is 56.8% — below the 57.8% national share by 1 points, ranking 25 of 52 with 0.394M MA enrollees of 0.694M Medicare beneficiaries as of February 2026.
County detail
No Arkansas counties are in the current tracked set. County-level pages for every state arrive with the full CPSC county pipeline — see methodology.
Tracked carrier positions in Arkansas
| Carrier | Enrollment (K) | Plans | Stars | YoY trend | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | 98 | 3 | 3.5 | -3.8% | Little Rock metro focus |
Carrier coverage is the curated major-carrier extract (March 2026) — not all carriers in the state.
Sales playbook one-pager
↓ Download the Arkansas sales playbook (PNG): a branded snapshot of penetration, runway class, carrier positions, D-SNP gap, and contestable members for this state. Runway class and score are a MedicareInsights modeled index, never citable as CMS data; source vintages are printed on the image.
So what / Now what
Arkansas is a switcher market — expansion means winning members from incumbent MA plans on benefits, network, and brand.
- Compare against neighboring states on the national table.
- Check 2026 plan exits for orphaned membership contestable in this market.
- Sales teams: see where this state ranks on the growth runway index and which competitive facts apply on the carrier battlecards.
Provenance — MA enrollment & penetration by state
- Source file
- CMS Medicare Monthly Enrollment (data.cms.gov, public API)
- Vintage
- February 2026
- Last updated
- June 15, 2026
- Refresh cadence
- Monthly (CMS publishes ~3 months in arrears)
- Method
- State-level rows pulled from the Medicare Monthly Enrollment API; MA share = MA_AND_OTH_BENES / TOT_BENES. Refreshed via automated pipeline from the CMS public API.
- Known limitations
- Penetration here is share of all Medicare beneficiaries (Parts A and/or B), not the KFF eligible-only basis, which runs ~4pts higher.