From MN StarTribune: #MayoClinicPart
Mayo Clinic tells hundreds of Medicare Advantage patients to obtain new insurance to keep getting care
Mayo says patients can look for insurance plans in which the clinic is in-network. The change affects fewer than 600 Minnesotans.
(Sorry, complete story behind paywall, info may be available upon search).
PartC = Advantage Plans Medicare are corrupt & rip off Medicare. "Medicare Advantage several cases of fraud and corruption"
@Gladari I believe they can also get straight Medicare and a Medigap plan, without the usual problems when going from Advantage to a Medigap plan, because their Advantage plan has ceased to exist.
Yes,
"Medicare open enrollment 2024 begins on Oct 15 & ends Dec 7. Review & make changes to Medicare coverage to take effect on January 1, 2025.
Some changes you can make during the open enrollment period include:
* Switching from traditional Medicare to a Medicare Advantage plan, or vice versa
*Switching between Medicare Advantage plans
*Electing/switching between Medicare Part D prescription drug plans
*Changing cost, coverage, providers & pharmacies"
At least Medicare Advantage enrollees can choose any plan during open enrollment, and it sounds like there are plenty that have contracts with Mayo.
I notice they don't accept Cigna's Medicare plan. They tend to enroll a lot of people by promising cheaper costs to patients, but then they have very few hospitals and specialists in network.
@AlphaCentauri @Coctaanatis
That is what Open Enrollment is for, making choices based on ones personal needs - pharmacies, prescription plans, and even with Medicare and/or supplement to choose.
Personally, they couldn't pay me to take Part C aka "W's" gift to Big Insurance.
1. Their corruption
2. My partner's mom needed her leg amputated to diabetes. "Advantage" plan required 1 toe at a time amputated b4 approval of what she needed. Her nurse daughter, her doc & team knew it, not Ins.!