Which Medicare Advantage plans does Ellis Hospital accept?

Ellis's list, 2026

Ellis Hospital in Schenectady is part of Ellis Medicine, which publishes one accepted-insurance list for its hospitals (Ellis Hospital (Schenectady), Bellevue Woman's Center (Niskayuna), Medical Center of Clifton Park, Ellis Health Center). Ellis Hospital on Nott Street is Schenectady County's hospital, and Ellis Medicine's list also covers Bellevue Woman's Center and the Medical Center of Clifton Park. Ellis is the only one of the three systems whose list includes Humana. Its page is also the most explicit that hospital-based physician groups (anesthesia, radiology, pathology, emergency) bill separately and may participate in different plans.

What the list says about Medicare Advantage carriers, read September 21, 2026:

• Listed: CDPHP; MVP Health Care; Highmark Blue Shield of Northeastern NY; Aetna; UnitedHealthcare; Humana (listed; Humana Medicaid excluded); Wellcare; Fidelis Care; Empire BlueCross BlueShield (Anthem).
• Listed, not all plans: EmblemHealth (listed as GHI/Emblem, 'does not participate in all plans'). The hospital itself adds that note, so the specific plan matters more than usual here.
• Not on the list: Trinity Health Plan of New York, Hamaspik Medicare Select, Nascentia Health Plus, VNS Health. Absent from the page as read, which is a reason to verify with the plan and the hospital, not proof of exclusion.

Source: Participating insurance listing (Ellis Medicine), read September 21, 2026. The list covers hospital facility services; hospital-based physician groups (anesthesia, radiology, pathology, emergency) bill separately and may participate in different plans, and a physician office's own insurance list is not the hospital's.

Every 2026 Medicare Advantage plan sold in Schenectady County, against Ellis's list

60 plans, from the CMS Medicare Advantage and Part D landscape file, contract year 2026, read September 21, 2026. Each plan is placed under the hospital's wording for its carrier: 48 listed, 2 listed with the "not all plans" note, 0 from a carrier the hospital states it does not accept, 10 from carriers not on the list. The last column shows which plans I can enroll you in; the rest are listed so the field is complete. Premiums, copays, extras and star ratings are left off on purpose; they are in each plan's own documents and on medicare.gov/plan-compare.

"Listed" means the plan's carrier appears on the hospital's list; it does not mean this plan's network includes Ellis Hospital. "Not accepted" is the hospital's own statement about the carrier, with its date. "Not on the list" means the carrier is absent from the page as read, which is unverified, not excluded. Plans are filed by county, so this is the Schenectady County list; a plan sold here may not be sold in the next county. Special-needs plans (D-SNP, C-SNP, I-SNP) are only for people who qualify.

Confirm before you rely on any of it

Two checks, both by name, before you enroll or stay in a plan because of Ellis: look up Ellis Hospital in the plan's own provider directory (not the carrier's general one), and call the hospital's billing office with the exact plan name. Then do the same for each doctor you see, because a hospital contract and a physician contract are separate. Lists change between enrollment periods; the Humana changes in this region happened in June 2024 and January 2025, not on January 1. I re-read the hospital's page each October before the Annual Enrollment Period and update this page; the dates above say when it was last read.

The route that needs no list

Original Medicare has no network, and Ellis Hospital participates in it. Paired with a Medigap policy, which in New York can be bought in any month without health questions, it covers Ellis, the other Capital Region hospitals and hospitals anywhere in the country; it costs more per month than a $0-premium Advantage plan and needs a separate Part D plan. If you are in an Advantage plan today, leaving it for Original Medicare happens only in an enrollment period, and the Medigap and Part D start dates have to line up with the disenrollment; the enrollment check shows which window is open. The trade-offs are in Advantage vs Medigap in New York; current Albany-region Medigap premiums are on the rates page.

Nearby

The full Schenectady County plan list without the hospital column, and the Schenectady County Medicare page. All three hospital systems side by side: which plans Capital Region hospitals accept. Town pages for people who use Ellis: Schenectady, Niskayuna, Clifton Park. Other hospitals: Albany Medical Center, St. Peter's Hospital, Saratoga Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, Glens Falls Hospital.

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