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How the check works: a licensed agent checks Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and any doctors you name, against every 2026 marketplace plan filed in your county, then sends you the plans that include them and the date it was checked. It costs nothing, and you only get a call if you ask for one.
- Your ZIP code
- Who to check — Sarasota Memorial Hospital is filled in
- Your answer, usually the same day
Open Enrollment for 2027 runs November 1 to January 15: choose by December 15 for coverage from January 1. CareSource is leaving Ohio’s marketplace for 2027. If your plan is from CareSource, it ends December 31, and the plan that replaces it may not include Sarasota Memorial Hospital. A licensed agent will check the 2027 plans for you before you choose.
Sarasota Memorial Hospital runs 2 hospitals in Florida, in North Venice, Sarasota. Whether a marketplace plan covers any one of them depends on the individual plan, not on the carrier's name, and it can change during the year. Here is what is actually knowable, and how to settle it for your own plan.
Insurance at Sarasota Memorial Hospital: the short answer
These 6 insurers sell 2027 marketplace plans in Sarasota County: Ambetter Health, AmeriHealth Caritas Next, Florida Blue (BlueCross BlueShield FL), Florida Blue HMO (a BlueCross BlueShield FL company), Oscar Health Maintenance Organization of Florida and Wellpoint.
That is not a list of plans Sarasota Memorial Hospital accepts. Hospitals contract with individual plans, not whole insurers, so the same insurer can sell one plan that includes Sarasota Memorial Hospital and another that doesn’t. The answer that counts is a check of your exact plan, dated. Get my free hospital check ↑
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Where Sarasota Memorial Hospital is
2 facilities, taken from the CMS Hospital General Information file, updated 22 July 2026. Listing a hospital is not a statement about which plans contract with it — that is decided plan by plan.
| Hospital | City | County | Emergency room | CMS star rating | Type | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarasota Memorial Hospital | Sarasota | Sarasota County | Yes | 5 of 5 | Acute care | Government |
| Sarasota Memorial Hospital - Venice | North Venice | Sarasota County | Yes | 5 of 5 | Acute care | Government |
CMS star rating is the federal overall hospital quality rating, 1 to 5, from the same July 2026 CMS file. Small rural (critical access) hospitals often have too few reported measures to be rated.
Why no page can promise your plan covers Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Hospital networks are set plan by plan and renegotiated during the year. Two plans from the same insurer, at similar prices, can differ on whether a hospital is in network. Nothing in the public CMS files records hospital contracts, so any page listing "insurers Sarasota Memorial Hospital accepts" is describing one plan on one day, and not saying which.
What is knowable is the shape of the market: 6 insurers file 136 plans across Sarasota County, and some plans in Sarasota County are PPOs, which pay something out of network; of the rest, EPO and HMO plans generally do not, and POS plans pay part of an out-of-network bill.
Three checks settle it for your own plan: the insurer’s own provider directory for the exact plan name, the hospital’s billing office (ask about the plan, not the carrier), and the date you checked, because the answer can change mid-year.
The 2027 marketplace where Sarasota Memorial Hospital sits
Filed rates for plan year 2027, before any premium tax credit. Benchmark Silver is the second-lowest-cost Silver plan for a 40-year-old, the plan credits are calculated against.
| County | Insurers filing | Plans filed | PPO sold | Benchmark Silver, age 40 | Family of 4, per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarasota County | 6 | 136 | Yes | $730 | $2,333 |
In Sarasota County the insurers filing are Ambetter Health, AmeriHealth Caritas Next, Florida Blue (BlueCross BlueShield FL), Florida Blue HMO (a BlueCross BlueShield FL company), Oscar Health Maintenance Organization of Florida, Wellpoint. A PPO is sold here.
How many providers each insurer lists in Sarasota County
Every insurer selling marketplace plans has to publish its provider directory as a data file. The figures count the doctors, clinics and hospitals each one lists at an address in Sarasota County, across the 2026 plans it filed there. Oscar Health Maintenance Organization of Florida lists the most, 5,162. Wellpoint lists the fewest, 1,438.
| Insurer | Providers listed in Sarasota County | Plans filed |
|---|---|---|
| Oscar Health Maintenance Organization of Florida | 5,162 | 15 |
| Florida Blue (BlueCross BlueShield FL) | 3,623 | 33 |
| Florida Blue HMO (a BlueCross BlueShield FL company) | 3,468 | 39 |
| Ambetter Health | 2,899 | 19 |
| Wellpoint | 1,438 | 13 |
From each insurer’s own CMS machine-readable provider directory, downloaded September 25, 2026. A bigger number is not a promise about Sarasota Memorial Hospital. These files are self-reported, they go stale, and one insurer’s plans do not all use the same network — which is why a licensed agent checks the exact plan against Sarasota Memorial Hospital by hand above.
Open Enrollment 2027
Cigna is leaving Florida's marketplace for 2027, and Open Enrollment runs 1 November 2026 to 15 January 2027. If your 2026 plan is from Cigna, the plan that replaces it is a different plan with its own network. A licensed agent can check Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and any doctors you name, against the plans filed in your county and send you the ones that include them, with the date it was checked.
Emergency care is treated differently
2 of these locations run an emergency room. Federal law requires marketplace plans to cover emergency care at in-network cost sharing even when the hospital is out of network, so an emergency visit is not the case to worry about. Planned surgery, imaging, maternity and specialist follow-up are where the network matters.
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