Which plans exited for 2026, and what successor plans were identified?
CMS’s 2026 Plan Crosswalk lists 751 non-employer Medicare health plans offered in 2025 that are not offered in 2026, with no successor plan named. UnitedHealth Group had the most, with 107 exits. The crosswalk names a successor for 337 more that were consolidated into another plan.
All figures: CMS Plan Crosswalk 2026, contract year 2025 → 2026. Counts are plans, not members. Separately, 50 stand-alone PDPs were not offered in 2026.
Plan exits by parent organization
Top 10 parent organizations by number of exiting plans. Parent names are CMS’s Parent Organization field from the February 2025 contract file.
| Parent organization | Plans exited | Of which SNP plans |
|---|---|---|
| UnitedHealth Group, Inc. | 107 | 21 |
| CVS Health Corporation | 106 | 17 |
| The Cigna Group | 97 | 5 |
| Elevance Health, Inc. | 56 | 21 |
| Centene Corporation | 46 | 8 |
| Humana Inc. | 37 | 15 |
| Sentara Health Care (SHC) | 22 | 5 |
| Highmark Health | 19 | 0 |
| The Carle Foundation | 15 | 0 |
| UCare Minnesota | 14 | 2 |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Mutual Ins. Co. | 13 | 0 |
| Avian Health Holdings, LLC | 12 | 6 |
| Lifetime Healthcare, Inc. | 11 | 0 |
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clincs Autho | 11 | 1 |
| Gemstone Holdings, Inc. | 9 | 2 |
| All 65 parent organizations | 751 | 136 |
What happened to every 2025 plan
Each 2025 non-employer health plan in the crosswalk, by outcome. Consolidations are where CMS names a successor.
| Outcome for 2026 | 2025 plans |
|---|---|
| Not offered in 2026, no successor plan named by CMS | 751 |
| Terminated, with part of its area consolidated into another plan | 19 |
| Consolidated into another plan (successor named) | 337 |
| Surviving plan of a consolidation | 185 |
| Renewed with a service-area reduction | 631 |
| Renewed with a service-area expansion | 392 |
| Renewed unchanged | 3,322 |
| All 2025 plans in scope | 5,637 |
Exits by SNP type
| SNP type (2025) | Plans exited |
|---|---|
| Not a SNP | 615 |
| Dual-Eligible | 82 |
| Chronic or Disabling Condition | 36 |
| Institutional | 18 |
Planning notes Generated summary
Exits were concentrated: the five parent organizations with the most exits account for 412 of the 751 exits. The crosswalk shows which plans ended and where CMS named a successor. It does not show how many members were in those plans or where they enrolled next.
- Use the CSV to check whether a competitor’s exiting plans overlap your service area.
- The 2027 crosswalk is due around October 1, 2026; the 2026-to-2027 landscape comparison is on 2027 plan changes.
Provenance — 2026 plan exits (CMS Plan Crosswalk)
- Source file
- CMS Plan Crosswalk 2026 (
PlanCrosswalk2026_10012025.txt, published October 1, 2025) - Parent organization
- CMS Monthly Enrollment by Contract/Plan/State/County, February 2025, contract info file (
Parent Organization) - Vintage
- Contract year 2025 → 2026
- Ingested
- 2026-09-30
- Refresh cadence
- Annual (CMS publishes each crosswalk around October 1)
- Scope
- Non-employer Medicare health plans: contract IDs beginning H or R (MA, MA-PD, cost, demonstration), plan IDs outside the 800 series. PDPs are reported separately. Employer group plans are excluded.
- Method
- Each 2025 plan (contract + plan ID) is classified by its crosswalk rows. An exit is a plan whose only status is “Terminated/Non-renewed Contract”, which CMS defines as “all 2025 plans that are no longer offered in 2026”. A plan with a termination row and a consolidation row is counted separately as a partial exit. Counts are distinct plans, not members.
- Status
- STATIC_EXTRACT
- Known limitations
- The crosswalk carries no enrollment, so members in exiting plans are not shown; that needs a CMS CPSC month from late 2025, which is not ingested. 2 exiting plans are not in the February 2025 contract file and are shown without a parent. The crosswalk records plan-level decisions; it does not say where members enrolled next.