Florida Has Most Residents With Medicare Supplement Insurance Policies

The state of Florida has more residents covered by a Medicare supplement insurance policy (also called Medigap plans) than any other state, at 834,958 lives covered in 2016. The states with the next highest Medicare supplement insurance enrollments are Texas, with 776,575 covered lives; Illinois, with 748,367 covered lives; Pennsylvania, with 660,554 covered lives; and California with 475,741 covered lives. The lowest enrollments were Hawaii, at 9,088 covered lives; the District of Columbia at 9,927 covered lives; and Alaska at 3,345 covered lives. Nationwide, about 13 million of the 38 million Medicare . . .