40 health systems dropping Medicare Advantage plans | 2025

Among the most commonly cited reasons are excessive prior authorization denial rates and slow payments from insurers.

In 2023, Becker’s began reporting on hospitals and health systems nationwide that dropped some or all of their Medicare Advantage contracts. 2024 coverage is here.

40 health systems dropping Medicare Advantage plans:
Editor’s note: This is not an exhaustive list. It will continue to be updated this year.

1. Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare will no longer contract with any MA PPO plans in 2026 in the Puget Sound region.
2. In 2026, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will be out-of-network with most Medicare Advantage plans from UnitedHealthcare and Humana, per the Star Tribune.
3. NewYork-Presbyterian will be out of network with UnitedHealthcare MA in 2026.
4. Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health will go out of network with Humana, WellCare (Centene), and Health Care Service Corp. (formerly Cigna) MA plans in 2026.
5. Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network will go out of network with UnitedHealthcare MA on Jan. 25, 2026.
6. Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System will not accept Humana MA in 2026.
7. Montrose (Colo.) Regional Health will end its contract with Humana MA in 2026.
8. Lynchburg, Va.-based Centra Health is dropping Humana Medicare Advantage in 2026.
9. As of Jan. 1, most primary care providers at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham will no longer be in network for patients with Medicare Advantage plans from UnitedHealthcare or Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
10. Ohio-based Kettering Health will no longer contract with Humana and Devoted Health past 2025. 
11. Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health went out of network with UnitedHealthcare MA (with the exception of D-SNP in Virginia) on Sept. 15.
12. Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System went out of network with Florida Blue Medicare Advantage in September.
13. Clarion-based Iowa Specialty Hospitals and Clinics is dropping all Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, except for Aetna, Medigold, UnitedHealthcare, and Wellmark BCBS.
14. Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine went out of network with UnitedHealthcare MA in August.
15. Charleston based-MUSC Health’s contract with Humana Medicare Advantage expired on June 30.
16. Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health and UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage mutually agreed to go out of network on July 1.
17. Tupelo, Miss.-based North Mississippi Health Services went out-of-network with UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage on June 1.
18. Oregon-based Salem Health and Regence BCBS Medicare Advantage went out of network in February.
19. Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth terminated its contracts with Humana and Cigna Medicare Advantage plans, effective Jan. 1, the system’s CFO confirmed to Becker’s.
20. Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White is no longer in network with Humana Medicare Advantage as of Jan. 1.
21. Livonia-based Trinity Health Michigan is no longer included in Humana’s Medicare Advantage network as of Jan. 1.
22. West Des Moines, Iowa-based MercyOne is no longer included in Humana’s Medicare Advantage network as of Jan. 1.
23. Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed is out of network with Humana Medicare Advantage for non-state retirees as of Jan. 1, and with UnitedHealthcare MA as of Nov. 15.
24. CommonSpirit hospitals in Colorado and Humana went out of network on Jan. 1.
25. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus went out of network with Anthem Medicare Advantage on Jan. 1.
26. WVU Medicine’s Uniontown (Pa.) Hospital and its affiliated provider groups are no longer participating providers with Highmark PA or Highmark Wholecare Medicare Advantage as of Jan. 1.
27. Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Health has ended its contract with Humana Medicare Advantage.
28. Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health went out of network with Humana Medicare Advantage plans in 2025.
29. Watertown, S.D.-based Prairie Lakes Healthcare System dropped Humana Medicare Advantage in January.
30. Nashville-based Vanderbilt Health is no longer in network with BCBS Tennessee Medicare Advantage.
31. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health ended participation as an in-network provider with Humana Medicare Advantage, effective Jan. 1, 2025. The system will also drop Aetna MA for 2026.
32. Quincy, Ill.-based Blessing Health implemented a new MA approach in 2025 and is only contracting with BCBS, UnitedHealthcare, Molina and Total Retiree Advantage Illinois.
33. Lawrence, Kan.-based LMH Health no longer accepts Aetna or Humana Medicare Advantage, effective Jan. 1.
34. Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health dropped Humana Medicare Advantage in Minnesota for 2025.
35. North Platte, Neb.-based Great Plains Health no longer accepts any Medicare Advantage plans as of 2025.
36. Kimball (Neb.) Health Services no longer accepts any Medicare Advantage plans as of 2025.
37. Carson City, Nev.-based Carson Tahoe Health stopped accepting most Medicare Advantage plans throughout 2025, except for Prominence and Renown Health’s Senior Care Plus.
38. Farmers Branch, Texas-based Southwestern Health Resources, which includes providers at Texas Health and UT Southwestern, went out of network with Aetna Medicare Advantage in 2025.
39. Minneapolis-based Allina Health went out of network with Humana Medicare Advantage in 2025.
40. Midland-based MyMichigan Health is no longer participating in the Aetna Medicare Advantage network in 2025.