Salt Lake City Medicare Plans for 2027

Let's set the stage. Salt Lake City has the largest number of older adults of any city in Utah that we track: about 24,921 residents are 65 or older, 12.2% of the city's 203,888 people, per the Census Bureau's 2019 to 2023 American Community Survey.

Medicare plans are approved by county, so Salt Lake City residents use Salt Lake County's 2027 plan data from the CMS landscape file, shown below.

Salt Lake City 2027 Medicare plan snapshot (Salt Lake County data)

Carriers with standard Medicare Advantage plans in Salt Lake County for 2027: Aetna Medicare, Devoted Health, Humana, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah, Select Health, UnitedHealthcare. Plan types: 4 HMO, 20 PPO, 4 HMO-POS.

Special needs plans and extra help in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake County has 18 special needs plans for 2027: 11 for people with both Medicare and Medicaid (D-SNPs), 5 for people with certain chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease (C-SNPs), 2 for people who live in a nursing home or need that level of care (I-SNPs). Special needs plans are only open to people who qualify, and they can be a strong fit when they are. If you have both Medicare and Medicaid, or you have a qualifying chronic condition, ask us to include these plans in your comparison.

People with limited income and resources may also qualify for Extra Help with Part D costs. Under the CMS 2027 Part D parameters, Extra Help enrollees living in the community pay a $0 drug deductible and, depending on income, copays of $1.65 to $5.80 for generic drugs and $5.00 to $14.40 for other drugs. You can apply through Social Security.

We line up every 2027 plan available at your address for you, plan by plan, with your doctors, drugs and pharmacy, so you see the whole picture in one conversation.

About the $0 premium plans in Salt Lake City

15 of the 22 non special needs plans with drug coverage in Salt Lake City have a $0 monthly plan premium for 2027. Their in-network out-of-pocket maximums run from $4,700 to $9,850. Let's be real about what $0 means. It means no extra premium to the insurance company. You still pay your Medicare Part B premium (CMS has not announced the 2027 Part B premium yet), and you still pay copays and coinsurance when you use care, up to the plan's out-of-pocket maximum.

Some plans with "Giveback" in the name reduce the amount you pay for Part B. The CMS landscape file we use does not list the giveback dollar amount, so we confirm it from the plan's own documents before we quote it to you.

What 2027 Part D changes mean for Salt Lake City

Two federal numbers apply to every Part D plan in Salt Lake City, whether it is built into a Medicare Advantage plan or sold on its own. CMS set the 2027 standard Part D deductible at $700 (up from $615 in 2026) and the yearly out-of-pocket limit on covered drugs at $2,400 (up from $2,100), in its CY 2027 Rate Announcement. Once your own spending on covered Part D drugs reaches $2,400 in 2027, you pay nothing more for covered drugs the rest of the year.

Plans can set a lower drug deductible than the standard one. In Salt Lake City, the non special needs Medicare Advantage plans with drug coverage carry drug deductibles from $215 to $700. A lower deductible matters most if you fill brand name drugs early in the year.

Here's the thing about drug coverage: the plan that looks cheapest on premium is not always cheapest once your prescriptions are priced. CMS has not published 2027 plan formularies (the lists of which drugs each plan covers and at what tier) in our data yet, so we price your list against each plan when the 2027 formulary data is available, and we tell you which year's data we are using.

How we compare plans with you

1. List your doctors and hospitals. Network is the first filter. An HMO, a PPO and an HMO-POS plan treat out of network care very differently.
2. List your prescriptions with dose and how often you fill them. We price them against the plans that fit your doctors.
3. Plan for a bad year, not just a good one. Compare the out-of-pocket maximum and drug costs, not just the premium.
4. Decide between Medicare Advantage and a Medicare Supplement. A Supplement (Medigap) plus a Part D plan works anywhere that accepts Medicare. We quote Plan G and Plan N from the carriers we represent in Salt Lake City.
5. Enroll by December 7, 2026 for coverage that starts January 1, 2027, during the October 15 to December 7 Open Enrollment Period.

See the full county view on our Salt Lake County Medicare plans page, or the statewide table on Medicare in Utah.

Plan counts come from the CMS CY2027 Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Landscape (September 2026 release). 2027 star ratings were not in this file.

Updated October 26, 2026 by the Everything Senior Insurance Data Desk.