Medicare Advantage Plans Cleared To Go Beyond Medical Coverage — Even Groceries [khn.org]

Alicia Doktor 4/4/1812:00 PM

Air conditioners for people with asthma, healthy groceries, rides to medical appointments and home-delivered meals may be among the new benefits added to Medicare Advantage coverage when new federal rules take effect next year.

On Monday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expandedhow it defines the “primarily health-related” benefits that insurers are allowed to include in their Medicare Advantage policies. And insurers would include these extras on top of providing the benefits traditional Medicare offers.

“Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will have more supplemental benefits making it easier for them to lead healthier, more independent lives,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.

[For more on this story by Susan Jaffe, go to https://khn.org/news/medicare-...rage-even-groceries/]

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Elizabeth LivingstonMember

Thanks for sharing such informative read here. Medicare advantage plan always provides enormous benefits to people who enrol themselves under it. The maximum coverage it provides is making the people live much healthier and easy life after retirement. One even does not have to pay the doctor's visit cost or any out of pocket cost if enrolled under other Medicare supplement plans. So, make sure that you have gone through all the details of the Medicare insurance plan that you are choosing from the well-known insurance provides like The Health Exchange Agency. Going this way can prevent a person from facing any confusion in future when the time of claiming the insurance comes.

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