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Medicare Advantage in Queens County, NY

As of April 2026, 257,192 of the county's 421,402 Medicare-eligible people are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, a penetration of 61.0% (up 8,450 enrollees, +3.4%, versus April 2025). The three largest parent organizations hold 66.8% of the county's MA enrollment. For plan year 2026, the CMS Landscape lists 77 MA and Special Needs plans in the county from 16 parent organizations, 17 of them with a $0 consolidated premium.

MA enrolled
257,192
MA enrolled
Medicare eligibles
421,402
Medicare eligibles
MA penetration
61.0%
MA penetration
2026 plans on offer
77
2026 plans on offer

Enrollment and eligibles: CMS MA State/County Penetration, report month 2026-04-01. County keys: FIPS 36081, SSA 33590. 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.

Healthfirst, Inc.
92,026
35.8%
10 plan rows, 3 suppressed
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
41,675
16.2%
196 plan rows, 176 suppressed
CVS Health Corporation
38,152
14.8%
118 plan rows, 101 suppressed
Centene Corporation
19,795
7.7%
15 plan rows, 5 suppressed
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
17,288
6.7%
3 plan rows
Elevance Health, Inc.
13,437
5.2%
106 plan rows, 97 suppressed
Humana Inc.
10,138
3.9%
54 plan rows, 45 suppressed
EmblemHealth, Inc.
7,159
2.8%
11 plan rows, 5 suppressed
Elderplan, Inc.
6,917
2.7%
6 plan rows, 1 suppressed
Village Care of New York, Inc.
3,214
1.2%
3 plan rows
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
3,027
1.2%
3 plan rows
CenterLight Health System, Inc.
865
0.3%
2 plan rows, 1 suppressed
+ 66 other parent organizations with small or fully suppressed county enrollment, together between 550 and 3,620 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=71)
$53
median premium (n=71)
lowest MOOP
$0
lowest MOOP
highest MOOP
$9,250
highest MOOP
HMO D-SNP SNP
26 plans
1 at $0
12 parents
PPO MA
14 plans
7 at $0
6 parents
HMO MA
12 plans
5 at $0
7 parents
HMO-POS MA
11 plans
2 at $0
4 parents
HMO-POS D-SNP SNP
5 plans
0 at $0
2 parents
PPO D-SNP SNP
2 plans
0 at $0
2 parents
PPO I-SNP SNP
2 plans
0 at $0
2 parents
HMO-POS I-SNP SNP
2 plans
1 at $0
1 parents
HMO I-SNP SNP
2 plans
0 at $0
2 parents
HMO C-SNP SNP
1 plans
1 at $0
1 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.

Healthfirst Life Improvement Plan (HMO D-SNP)
H3359-021 · HMO D-SNP · Healthfirst, Inc. · Dual-Eligible
49,647 enrolled
$58.80
$9,250.00 MOOP
Healthfirst 65 Plus Plan (HMO)
H3359-001 · HMO · Healthfirst, Inc.
18,957 enrolled
$0.00
$9,250.00 MOOP
UHC Dual Complete NY-S002 (HMO-POS D-SNP)
H3387-014 · HMO-POS D-SNP · UnitedHealth Group, Inc. · Dual-Eligible
18,901 enrolled
$58.80
$9,250.00 MOOP
VNS Health EasyCare Plus (HMO D-SNP)
H5549-011 · HMO D-SNP · Visiting Nurse Service of New York · Dual-Eligible
14,326 enrolled
$51.60
$9,250.00 MOOP
AARP Medicare Advantage from UHC NY-0012 (PPO)
H3418-001 · PPO · UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
11,218 enrolled
$0.00
$8,900.00 MOOP
Aetna Medicare Elite (PPO)
H5521-120 · PPO · CVS Health Corporation
9,536 enrolled
$0.00
$9,250.00 MOOP
Healthfirst CompleteCare (HMO D-SNP)
H3359-034 · HMO D-SNP · Healthfirst, Inc. · Dual-Eligible
7,461 enrolled
$58.80
$9,250.00 MOOP
Aetna Medicare Full Dual Care (HMO D-SNP)
H3312-069 · HMO D-SNP · CVS Health Corporation · Dual-Eligible
7,284 enrolled
$58.80
$9,250.00 MOOP
Anthem HealthPlus Full Dual Advantage (HMO D-SNP)
H8432-042 · HMO D-SNP · Elevance Health, Inc. · Dual-Eligible
6,933 enrolled
$58.80
$9,250.00 MOOP
Healthfirst Increased Benefits Plan (HMO)
H3359-019 · HMO · Healthfirst, Inc.
6,884 enrolled
$24.20
$9,250.00 MOOP
Wellcare Dual Access (HMO D-SNP)
H4868-014 · HMO D-SNP · Centene Corporation · Dual-Eligible
6,173 enrolled
$58.80
$9,250.00 MOOP
Wellcare Fidelis Dual Liberty Sync (HMO D-SNP)
H5599-013 · HMO D-SNP · Centene Corporation · Dual-Eligible
5,190 enrolled
$58.80
$9,250.00 MOOP
AARP Medicare Advantage from UHC NY-0005 (HMO-POS)
H3379-001 · HMO-POS · UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
4,861 enrolled
$82.00
$9,250.00 MOOP
Healthfirst Connection Plan (HMO D-SNP)
H3359-038 · HMO D-SNP · Healthfirst, Inc. · Dual-Eligible
4,691 enrolled
$20.70
$9,250.00 MOOP
Healthfirst Signature (HMO)
H5989-011 · HMO · Healthfirst, Inc.
4,295 enrolled
$0.00
$9,250.00 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.

H3347 Elderplan, Inc. · 3.5 · 6 plans hereH5521 CVS Health Corporation · 4.5 · 6 plans hereH3312 CVS Health Corporation · 3.0 · 5 plans hereH3359 Healthfirst, Inc. · 4.5 · 5 plans hereH2775 Centene Corporation · 3.0 · 4 plans hereH3533 Humana Inc. · 3.0 · 4 plans hereH8432 Elevance Health, Inc. · 3.5 · 4 plans hereH0423 New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation · 4.0 · 3 plans hereH2168 Village Care of New York, Inc. · 3.5 · 3 plans hereH3387 UnitedHealth Group, Inc. · 4.0 · 3 plans hereH4868 Centene Corporation · 3.0 · 3 plans hereH5549 Visiting Nurse Service of New York · 3.5 · 3 plans hereH5599 Centene Corporation · 3.0 · 3 plans hereH5970 Humana Inc. · 3.0 · 3 plans hereH5991 EmblemHealth, Inc. · 3.0 · 3 plans hereH6988 Elevance Health, Inc. · 5.0 · 3 plans hereH0034 Hamaspik of Rockland County, Inc. · 3.5 · 2 plans hereH3379 UnitedHealth Group, Inc. · 3.5 · 2 plans hereH5992 Molina Healthcare, Inc. · Not Enough Data Available · 2 plans hereH6776 CareSource · Not Enough Data Available · 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 (33590); the FIPS code (36081) 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 8e11caa8 · 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 ('05470', '05430', '33590', '10050') 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 aca171478dd255f80edf365b61e34f7d2e42c546f73c830ecb208c6543941e57

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:NY-Queens query 198a4464 · 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 = 'NY' AND county = 'Queens' ORDER BY contract_id, plan_id, segment_id LIMIT 2000

tables: medicare_silver.fact_ma_landscape · response_hash 2c3a5c786cf9b7121a4a02287e06e2c2f5e9b25391372bd87a5b763fa9f08f63

top_plans_enrollment:33590 query 6d9ebc7b · 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 = '33590' ORDER BY enrollment_count DESC NULLS LAST LIMIT 45

tables: medicare_silver.enrollment_monthly_county · response_hash f5e1b5b9ab3cea2a333cb8eea59b243e7e55454e6f112088cb98b1912b92b0fc

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