Seven fewer plans in Kansas and five fewer in Washington, D.C., come with average Medicare Advantage premiums that fall by about 40% and 36% for 2027, according to CMS’s state fact sheets published Sept. 28. Kansas goes from 87 plans to 80, and the District from 20 to 15. The two jurisdictions show that a shrinking plan count and a falling average premium can arrive together, without saying what happens to members of the plans that disappear.
Kansas and D.C. plan counts, 87 to 80 and 20 to 15: The state sheets do not say whose plan ended or whether doctors and drugs carry over, which The 2027 Medicare Open Enrollment Decision Kit’s provider call script and cost calculator address. Test each remaining plan against doctors and drugs →
Kansas: 87 plans down to 80 as the average premium drops to $5.90
The Kansas page of the CMS state-by-state fact sheets reports 80 Medicare Advantage plans available in 2027 against 87 in 2026, for a state with 609,353 people enrolled in Medicare. The average monthly premium changed from $9.78 in 2026 to $5.90 in 2027, a decline of $3.88, or about 40%. The sheet puts access to a plan with a $0 premium at 100% of Kansas beneficiaries.
The drug side of the Kansas sheet is comparatively crowded. It lists 12 stand-alone Part D plans, more than the 10 in California, 9 in Arizona or 8 in Indiana on their sheets, with the lowest premium at $5.30 a month. Medicare.gov’s Open Enrollment page says people in Original Medicare can join, drop or switch a drug plan in the same fall window, so the count of stand-alone plans matters most to members who leave Medicare Advantage…