{"id":10736,"date":"2018-06-21T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2018-06-21T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:11:25","slug":"medicare-advantage-plans-plan-to-add-broad-non-medical-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10736","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage plans to add broad non-medical benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Beginning next year, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be permitted for the first time to broadly cover non-medical expense that can help Medicare enrollees improve their health. Examples include paying for transportation to help people get to doctors\u2019 appointments, healthful food delivered to home-bound MA enrollees, and in-home safety measures such as bathroom grab bars. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/economy\/making-sense\/column-these-9-new-medicare-advantage-benefits-are-a-big-deal-heres-why\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning next year, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans will be permitted for the first time to broadly cover non-medical expense that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}