Medicare Advantage

Arlington's 2027 Medicare Advantage slate: 22 new plans, 28 leaving, one new carrier

People in Arlington can choose from 83 Medicare Advantage plans for 2027, against 89 this year. 28 of this year’s plans are gone, 22 are new to Tarrant County, and 32 that continue have changed their premium, deductible, plan type or name, 10 of them under a new name.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Fall 2026 is when Medicare's plan year flips, and the 2027 Medicare Advantage lineup for Arlington is now set. Arlington sits in Tarrant County, where carriers file their plans with the federal government, and the county slate for next year includes a new insurer, a departing one, and a long list of plans that are changing names or rolling off entirely.

Here is who is offering Medicare Advantage in the county for 2027, what is new, and what is going away. The full plan-by-plan table is below.

The 2027 carrier lineup in Tarrant County

For the 2026 plan year, 12 carriers offered Medicare Advantage plans in the county that includes Arlington. For 2027, that total still stands at 12 — but the mix has shifted.

Carriers you can expect to see on next year's shelf include Aetna (CVS Health), Baylor Scott & White Health Plan, Blue Cross Blue Shield (HCSC), Centene (WellCare), Elevance Health (Anthem), Humana, Molina Healthcare of Texas, ProCare Advantage, Provider Partners Health Plans, Texas Independence Health Plan, UnitedHealthcare, and — new this year — Verda Health Plan of Texas.

American Health Advantage of Texas, which has offered one plan in the county, is not returning for 2027.

The plan types stay familiar: HMO, HMO-POS, PPO and PFFS plans are all represented, along with a sizeable group of Special Needs Plans (SNPs) built for people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, have certain chronic conditions, or live in an institutional setting.

What's new for 2027

Twenty-two plans are new to Tarrant County for 2027. A few patterns stand out:

• Verda Health Plan of Texas enters the county with Verda Noble Care (HMO) and Verda Noble Chronic Care (HMO C-SNP).
• Aetna (CVS Health) adds Aetna Medicare Enhanced Extra (PPO), Aetna Medicare QMB Only Care (HMO D-SNP) and Aetna Medicare Signature (HMO).
• Blue Cross Blue Shield (HCSC) adds HealthSpring TotalCare Plus (HMO D-SNP).
• Centene (WellCare) adds Wellcare Superior HealthPlan Dual Liberty (HMO D-SNP) and Wellcare Superior HealthPlan Dual Reserve Value (HMO D-SNP).
• Elevance Health (Anthem) adds Wellpoint Chronic Care Select (HMO-POS C-SNP), Wellpoint Dual Advantage Plus Select (HMO D-SNP), Wellpoint Dual Advantage Select (HMO D-SNP), Wellpoint Full Dual Advantage Select (HMO D-SNP) and Wellpoint Medicare Advantage Select (HMO-POS).
• Humana adds Humana DaVita Kidney Care (PPO C-SNP), Humana Gold Plus - Diabetes and Heart (HMO C-SNP), Humana Together in Health (PPO I-SNP) and Humana Value Choice (PPO).
• UnitedHealthcare adds a cluster of dual-eligible plans: UHC Dual Advantage TX-V11 (HMO-POS D-SNP), UHC Dual Complete TX-Q6, UHC Dual Complete TX-S6 and UHC Dual Complete TX-YL2 (all HMO-POS D-SNP).

A lot of the new activity, as you can see, is on the SNP side — plans designed for specific groups rather than the general Medicare population.

What's not coming back

Twenty-eight plans available in 2026 will not be offered in Tarrant County in 2027. That includes American Health Advantage of Texas (HMO I-SNP) — the carrier's only plan here — as well as:

• From Aetna (CVS Health): Aetna Medicare Enhanced (PPO) and Aetna Medicare Signature (PPO).
• From Baylor Scott & White Health Plan: BSW SeniorCare Advantage Essentials (HMO-POS).
• From Blue Cross Blue Shield (HCSC): Blue Cross Medicare Advantage Choice Premier (PPO), Blue Cross Medicare Advantage Dental Value (HMO), Blue Cross Medicare Advantage Dual Care Plus (HMO D-SNP), Blue Cross Medicare Advantage Optimum (PPO), Blue Cross Medicare Advantage Preferred (PPO), Blue Cross Medicare Advantage Saver (HMO), Blue Cross Medicare Advantage Value (HMO) and HealthSpring True Choice Savings (PPO).
• From Centene (WellCare): Wellcare Dual Liberty (HMO D-SNP) and Wellcare Giveback (HMO).
• From Elevance Health (Anthem): Wellpoint Dual Advantage, Wellpoint Dual Advantage 2 and Wellpoint Full Dual Advantage (all HMO D-SNP).
• From Humana: Humana Gold Choice H8145-084 (PFFS), Humana USAA Honor Giveback (PPO), Humana Value Choice H5216-352 (PPO), Humana Value Choice H7617-043 (PPO) and HumanaChoice H5216-042 (PPO).
• From UnitedHealthcare: AARP Medicare Advantage from UHC TX-0005 (PPO), AARP Medicare Advantage Patriot No Rx TX-MA06 (PPO), UHC Complete Care Support TX-1A (Regional PPO C-SNP), UHC Dual Complete TX-D004, UHC Dual Complete TX-S003 and UHC Dual Complete TX-V007 (all HMO-POS D-SNP).

If one of these is your current plan, you will receive a non-renewal notice from the insurer. That notice triggers a Special Enrollment Period — a separate window that lets you choose a new Medicare Advantage plan or move back to Original Medicare (and add a stand-alone Part D plan) outside the regular fall deadline.

Renamed, not retired

Ten plans are keeping their contracts but changing names. If a plan you were researching seems to have vanished, check whether it has simply been renamed before assuming it is gone. Examples in the county include Aetna Medicare Chronic Care Total (HMO C-SNP), several Aetna dual-eligible plans, Wellcare Superior HealthPlan Dual Access and Dual Reserve (both HMO D-SNP), Humana Essentials Plus Giveback (PPO), Humana Total Complete (HMO), HumanaChoice Giveback H5216-358 (PPO), and AARP Medicare Advantage from UHC TX-61 (Regional PPO).

Another 22 continuing plans show changes in things like premium, deductible, plan type or name. Your Annual Notice of Change (ANOC), mailed by late September, is the document that spells out exactly what is different about your plan for 2027.

The dates and the numbers to keep in mind

• Annual Enrollment Period: Oct. 15 – Dec. 7, 2026. A change made in that window starts Jan. 1, 2027.
• Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment: Jan. 1 – March 31, 2027. If you are already in a Medicare Advantage plan, you can make one switch during that window.
• Part D out-of-pocket cap: $2,100 in 2026, rising to $2,400 in 2027.
• Part D maximum deductible: $615 in 2026, rising to $700 in 2027.
• The Medicare Prescription Payment Plan lets you spread your drug costs out across the year in monthly bills instead of paying at the pharmacy counter.
• The 2027 Part B standard premium, Part B deductible and IRMAA income brackets have not been announced yet. CMS typically publishes them in the fall, usually in November.

Doing nothing is a choice too: if your plan is being offered again next year, it will roll over automatically with whatever changes the ANOC describes.

How to use the table below

The table below lists every Medicare Advantage plan on the 2026 Tarrant County shelf, grouped by carrier and showing the plan type (HMO, HMO-POS, PPO, PFFS) and whether drug coverage is included. It is a starting point for comparison, not a shopping list — the actual premium, deductible, provider network, drug formulary and extra benefits for 2027 live in each plan's own documents and on the official Medicare Plan Finder at medicare.gov.