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Medicare Advantage in Los Angeles County, CA

As of April 2026, 975,482 of the county's 1,706,321 Medicare-eligible people are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, a penetration of 57.2% (up 29,288 enrollees, +3.1%, versus April 2025). The three largest parent organizations hold 60.6% of the county's MA enrollment. For plan year 2026, the CMS Landscape lists 121 MA and Special Needs plans in the county from 19 parent organizations, 91 of them with a $0 consolidated premium.

MA enrolled
975,482
MA enrolled
Medicare eligibles
1,706,321
Medicare eligibles
MA penetration
57.2%
MA penetration
2026 plans on offer
121
2026 plans on offer

Enrollment and eligibles: CMS MA State/County Penetration, report month 2026-04-01. County keys: FIPS 06037, SSA 05200. Plans on offer: CMS 2026 Landscape, MA + SNP categories.

Who holds the market

Parent organizations by MA enrollment in the county, April 2026. Standalone Part D plans are excluded. Share = the parent's enrollees divided by the county's MA enrolled from the penetration file (the two CMS files can differ slightly; the denominator is stated, not assumed). A cell CMS suppressed (under 11 members) is counted as a bounded unknown, never as zero.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
334,240
34.3%
63 plan rows, 47 suppressed
SCAN Group
142,836
14.6%
57 plan rows, 29 suppressed
Elevance Health, Inc.
113,786
11.7%
98 plan rows, 80 suppressed
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
79,806
8.2%
275 plan rows, 248 suppressed
Alignment Healthcare USA, LLC
44,855
4.6%
48 plan rows, 28 suppressed
Humana Inc.
42,489
4.4%
153 plan rows, 141 suppressed
Centene Corporation
37,443
3.8%
21 plan rows, 12 suppressed
California Physicians' Service
34,522
3.5%
24 plan rows, 11 suppressed
Clever Care Health Plan, Inc.
30,262
3.1%
4 plan rows
Local Initiative Health Authority for LA County
29,702
3.0%
1 plan rows
CVS Health Corporation
20,936
2.1%
131 plan rows, 116 suppressed
Molina Healthcare, Inc.
17,297
1.8%
14 plan rows, 5 suppressed
+ 105 other parent organizations with small or fully suppressed county enrollment, together between 1,229 and 5,849 members (mostly employer-group and out-of-area plans).

What is on offer for 2026

From the CMS Landscape file for plan year 2026: distinct plans by type, how many carry a $0 consolidated premium, and the range of in-network maximum out-of-pocket (MOOP). A published premium of "Not Applicable" is left out of the premium statistics, not treated as $0.

lowest premium
$0
lowest premium
median premium (n=115)
$0
median premium (n=115)
lowest MOOP
$199
lowest MOOP
highest MOOP
$9,250
highest MOOP
HMO MA
52 plans
45 at $0
15 parents
HMO C-SNP SNP
23 plans
14 at $0
10 parents
HMO-POS MA
14 plans
11 at $0
3 parents
HMO-POS C-SNP SNP
10 plans
8 at $0
4 parents
HMO D-SNP SNP
9 plans
6 at $0
7 parents
PPO MA
8 plans
3 at $0
3 parents
HMO I-SNP SNP
5 plans
4 at $0
3 parents

The plans people are in

The largest plans in the county by April 2026 enrollment, with their 2026 premium and MOOP as published. Enrollment is the April 2026 CPSC file; premium and MOOP are the 2026 Landscape; the two describe different moments and are labelled so.

Kaiser Permanente Senior Advantage LA, Orange Co. (HMO)
H0524-003 · HMO · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
178,640 enrolled
$0.00
$699.00 MOOP
SCAN Classic (HMO)
H5425-006 · HMO · SCAN Group
82,978 enrolled
$0.00
$199.00 MOOP
Anthem Full Dual Advantage Aligned (HMO D-SNP)
H4471-010 · HMO D-SNP · Elevance Health, Inc. · Dual-Eligible
50,648 enrolled
$0.00
$9,250.00 MOOP
AARP Medicare Advantage from UHC CA-004P (HMO-POS)
H0543-168 · HMO-POS · UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
40,647 enrolled
$0.00
$800.00 MOOP
Kaiser Permanente Dual Complete South P1 (HMO D-SNP)
H8794-001 · HMO D-SNP · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. · Dual-Eligible
33,215 enrolled
$0.00
$9,250.00 MOOP
L.A. Care Medicare Plus (HMO D-SNP)
H1224-001 · HMO D-SNP · Local Initiative Health Authority for LA County · Dual-Eligible
29,702 enrolled
$6.20
$9,250.00 MOOP
Humana Gold Plus H5619-021 (HMO)
H5619-021 · HMO · Humana Inc.
28,111 enrolled
$0.00
$410.00 MOOP
Kaiser Permanente Sr Advantage LA, Orange Value (HMO)
H0524-078 · HMO · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
21,119 enrolled
$0.00
$1,999.00 MOOP
Wellcare Health Net Dual Align (HMO D-SNP)
H3561-008 · HMO D-SNP · Centene Corporation · Dual-Eligible
20,677 enrolled
$12.00
$9,250.00 MOOP
SCAN Balance (HMO C-SNP)
H5425-034 · HMO C-SNP · SCAN Group · Chronic or Disabling Condition
14,455 enrolled
$0.00
$199.00 MOOP
Clever Care Longevity (HMO)
H7607-014 · HMO · Clever Care Health Plan, Inc.
14,121 enrolled
$0.00
$500.00 MOOP
SCAN Connections (HMO D-SNP)
H0976-001 · HMO D-SNP · SCAN Group · Dual-Eligible
13,522 enrolled
$0.00
$9,250.00 MOOP
Alignment Health Platinum + Instacart (HMO)
H3815-008 · HMO · Alignment Healthcare USA, LLC
12,147 enrolled
$0.00
$499.00 MOOP
Anthem Select (HMO-POS)
H0544-058 · HMO-POS · Elevance Health, Inc.
11,986 enrolled
$0.00
$800.00 MOOP
SCAN Venture (HMO)
H5425-084 · HMO · SCAN Group
11,730 enrolled
$0.00
$1,000.00 MOOP

Star Ratings of the contracts offered here

CMS rates contracts, not counties or plans. The overall Star Rating below is the contract's rating as carried in the 2026 Landscape file (which reflects the July 2026 update); it applies to every plan under that contract nationally and says nothing county-specific.

H3815 Alignment Healthcare USA, LLC · 4.0 · 18 plans hereH5425 SCAN Group · 4.0 · 12 plans hereH0543 UnitedHealth Group, Inc. · 4.0 · 8 plans hereH0544 Elevance Health, Inc. · 3.0 · 7 plans hereH5649 Molina Healthcare, Inc. · 3.0 · 7 plans hereH6170 Champion Health Plans-USA, LLC. · Not Enough Data Available · 7 plans hereH4161 Elevance Health, Inc. · 3.0 · 5 plans hereH1993 Astiva Health Holdings Incorporated · 4.0 · 4 plans hereH5525 Humana Inc. · 3.5 · 4 plans hereH7607 Clever Care Health Plan, Inc. · 4.0 · 4 plans hereH0504 California Physicians' Service · 4.0 · 3 plans hereH0523 CVS Health Corporation · 3.0 · 3 plans hereH0562 Centene Corporation · 3.5 · 3 plans hereH3274 Curana Health Holdings, LLC · Not Enough Data Available · 3 plans hereH5496 Imperial Health Plan of California · 3.5 · 3 plans hereH5521 CVS Health Corporation · 4.5 · 3 plans hereH5619 Humana Inc. · 3.0 · 3 plans hereH0524 Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. · 4.5 · 2 plans hereH0976 SCAN Group · 4.0 · 2 plans hereH4647 The Regents of the University of California · Plan Too New To Be Measured · 2 plans here

Method and limits

  • Enrollment, eligibles and penetration are the CMS MA State/County Penetration file for 2026-04-01; the carrier mix is the CMS Monthly Enrollment by Contract/Plan/State/County (CPSC) file for the same month, restricted to MA contracts (H, R and E contract numbers; standalone Part D S-contracts excluded).
  • CMS suppresses any cell under 11 members. Those cells are shown as a range and excluded from shares; they are never zero. Parent rollups use the parent organization CMS publishes, not name matching.
  • Plans on offer are the CMS 2026 MA/Part D Landscape file, MA and SNP categories, counted as distinct contract-plan pairs. Premiums and MOOP are the published strings cast to numbers; "Not Applicable" is excluded from statistics.
  • Year-over-year compares the same report month one year earlier. Plan year, report month and retrieval date are three different clocks and are labelled separately.
  • A negotiated benefit or premium here is what a plan publishes, not what any individual pays; this page is not eligibility or enrollment advice.
  • Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services public files, cleaned and joined by Vlada. CMS does not endorse this page or Vlada Health. County identity is the CMS SSA county code (05200); the FIPS code (06037) is shown for reference and can cover more than one SSA cell.

Receipts

Every section above is one read-only query over the Vlada substrate, run through the same tool an agent would call. The query, the engine's query id, the response hash and the bytes scanned are recorded so the numbers can be re-run.

cohort_header query 39345610 · 78,820 bytes · 2026-09-15
SELECT fips, ssa, state_name, county_name, eligibles, enrolled, penetration FROM medicare_silver.ma_state_county_penetration WHERE report_month = DATE '2026-04-01' AND enrolled IS NOT NULL ORDER BY enrolled DESC LIMIT 10

tables: medicare_silver.ma_state_county_penetration · response_hash 46c5bdb36b49f942d989d0332628ef6190af4a31bed0642bd0aabd7016625b9e

prior_year_header query 0f647cea · 52,763 bytes · 2026-09-15
SELECT ssa, eligibles, enrolled, penetration FROM medicare_silver.ma_state_county_penetration WHERE report_month = DATE '2025-04-01' AND ssa IN ('05200', '03060', '45610', '14141', '10120', '05400', '05470', '05430', '33590', '10050')

tables: medicare_silver.ma_state_county_penetration · response_hash 9eef69df7c6b1bca210fd38e43e960277bb92c200774f2b76cea644361c9b39d

parents_by_county query d65db597 · 2,555,853 bytes · 2026-09-15
SELECT county_ssa, parent_org_raw, SUM(enrollment_count) AS enrolled, COUNT(*) AS plan_rows, SUM(CASE WHEN enrollment_count IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS suppressed_rows, SUM(enrollment_lower_bound) AS lower_bound, SUM(enrollment_upper_bound) AS upper_bound FROM medicare_silver.enrollment_monthly_county WHERE report_month = DATE '2026-04-01' AND contract_id NOT LIKE 'S%' AND county_ssa IN ('05200', '03060', '45610', '14141', '10120', '05400') GROUP BY county_ssa, parent_org_raw HAVING SUM(enrollment_count) >= 500 ORDER BY county_ssa, enrolled DESC LIMIT 2000

tables: medicare_silver.enrollment_monthly_county · response_hash cf5000bc9516517f22267b59df04cf0594590473a6f009c3f5fb56f7bef584a0

parents_tail query 4d364f07 · 2,555,853 bytes · 2026-09-15
SELECT county_ssa, COUNT(*) AS parents, SUM(lower_bound) AS lower_bound, SUM(upper_bound) AS upper_bound FROM (SELECT county_ssa, parent_org_raw, SUM(enrollment_count) AS enrolled, SUM(enrollment_lower_bound) AS lower_bound, SUM(enrollment_upper_bound) AS upper_bound FROM medicare_silver.enrollment_monthly_county WHERE report_month = DATE '2026-04-01' AND contract_id NOT LIKE 'S%' AND county_ssa IN ('05200', '03060', '45610', '14141', '10120', '05400', '05470', '05430', '33590', '10050') GROUP BY county_ssa, parent_org_raw) t WHERE enrolled IS NULL OR enrolled < 500 GROUP BY county_ssa LIMIT 2000

tables: medicare_silver.enrollment_monthly_county · response_hash ed8bbf3c4d1d1d95c33348e63f60c8b4936a006afe04a196d93276c87edea1cb

landscape_plans:CA-Los Angeles query 268efa73 · 531,082 bytes · 2026-09-15
SELECT contract_id, plan_id, segment_id, plan_name, plan_type, parent_org_name, snp_type, category, consolidated_premium, moop_in_network, overall_star_rating FROM medicare_silver.fact_ma_landscape WHERE report_year = 2026 AND category IN ('MA','SNP') AND state = 'CA' AND county = 'Los Angeles' ORDER BY contract_id, plan_id, segment_id LIMIT 2000

tables: medicare_silver.fact_ma_landscape · response_hash 4374ee0077df80c5a415f2b9f57edc3a76b8eb2f614760e7a5384a5b8fd68d66

top_plans_enrollment:05200 query 4bb54c61 · 2,587,279 bytes · 2026-09-15
SELECT contract_id, plan_id, parent_org_raw, enrollment_count, enrollment_lower_bound, enrollment_upper_bound FROM medicare_silver.enrollment_monthly_county WHERE report_month = DATE '2026-04-01' AND contract_id NOT LIKE 'S%' AND county_ssa = '05200' ORDER BY enrollment_count DESC NULLS LAST LIMIT 45

tables: medicare_silver.enrollment_monthly_county · response_hash 92ac17efb385691996dedeb7f423110fdadc8050d4b9e1014ade3e5636e82b4c

Generated 2026-09-15 · cohort rule: the 10 largest counties by MA enrollment at the 2026-04-01 report month, SSA-keyed · run these queries yourself · get_market_share · get_landscape