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Medicare Advantage enrollment, state footprint, Star Rating, and multi-year growth — sourced live from CMS contract files.

Total contract enrollment · Aug 2026 · CNC

9,833,615

across 32 active states · member-weighted Star Rating 3.39 (2026)

+0.5%

Month-over-Month

+7.8%

Year-over-Year

13.9%

CAGR (5yr)

5-Year Enrollment History Year-end (December) snapshots · current year as of Aug 2026

State Footprint Aug 2026

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5-Year Annual Enrollment

Snapshot	Enrollment	Net YoY	YoY %
2026-Aug (latest — partial year)	9,833,615	+709,889	+7.8%
2025-Dec	9,123,726	+1,072,739	+13.3%
2024-Dec	8,050,987	+2,137,051	+36.1%
2023-Dec	5,913,936	+153,070	+2.7%
2022-Dec	5,760,866	+408,111	+7.6%
2021-Dec	5,352,755	—	—

Month-over-Month Enrollment — Past 12 Months

Month	Enrollment	Net MoM	MoM %
2026-Aug	9,833,615	+48,912	+0.5%
2026-Jul	9,784,703	+33,406	+0.3%
2026-Jun	9,751,297	-76,596	-0.8%
2026-May	9,827,893	+33,297	+0.3%
2026-Apr	9,794,596	+39,207	+0.4%
2026-Mar	9,755,389	+35,346	+0.4%
2026-Feb	9,720,043	+132,249	+1.4%
2026-Jan	9,587,794	+464,068	+5.1%
2025-Dec	9,123,726	+52,246	+0.6%
2025-Nov	9,071,480	+38,361	+0.4%
2025-Oct	9,033,119	+36,695	+0.4%
2025-Sep	8,996,424	+37,512	+0.4%

State-by-State Enrollment

State	Code	Enrollment	Counties	Share of Provider
New York	NY	164,609	62	1.67%
Texas	TX	110,040	157	1.12%
California	CA	83,275	29	0.85%
Florida	FL	50,488	63	0.51%
Illinois	IL	48,748	95	0.50%
Arizona	AZ	46,824	15	0.48%
Kentucky	KY	39,712	120	0.40%
Oregon	OR	36,295	14	0.37%
Washington	WA	33,494	39	0.34%
Georgia	GA	32,277	135	0.33%
Michigan	MI	31,042	49	0.32%
South Carolina	SC	25,112	46	0.26%
Arkansas	AR	24,810	75	0.25%
Mississippi	MS	23,606	55	0.24%
Maine	ME	20,983	16	0.21%
Ohio	OH	16,434	86	0.17%
Pennsylvania	PA	14,654	63	0.15%
Iowa	IA	13,247	74	0.13%
New Jersey	NJ	12,879	20	0.13%
Wisconsin	WI	12,865	35	0.13%
North Carolina	NC	12,472	71	0.13%
Connecticut	CT	12,226	8	0.12%
Louisiana	LA	10,230	45	0.10%
Indiana	IN	10,223	81	0.10%
Tennessee	TN	10,177	92	0.10%
Missouri	MO	7,184	58	0.07%
Nebraska	NE	5,308	41	0.05%
Delaware	DE	3,843	3	0.04%
Nevada	NV	3,303	8	0.03%
Kansas	KS	2,813	29	0.03%
Oklahoma	OK	2,405	30	0.02%
Hawaii	HI	2,005	4	0.02%

State totals sum to slightly less than the provider's contract-level enrollment. CMS suppresses any county–contract cell with 10 or fewer enrollees for HIPAA privacy, so those small slivers don't appear in the state/county file but are still counted in the contract total.