Medicare guides for 2027

Four guides to the choices of open enrollment (October 15 to December 7, 2026), each answered with the figures of the 2027 CMS files: 5,089 Medicare Advantage plans, 323 drug plans, and 732 Medicare Advantage plans (2,391,523 members in September 2026) and 32 stand-alone drug plans (1,182,209 members) that end.

Which guide answers your question?

• Medicare open enrollment for 2027: dates and what to checkThe three windows, and what to check first
• If your Medicare Advantage plan is not offered in 2027What happens, your choices and the deadlines
• Medicare Advantage or Original MedicareHow they differ, with the 2027 figures
• How Medicare star ratings workWhat they measure and why they matter