{"id":14206,"date":"2019-10-08T07:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2019-10-08T07:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:26:23","slug":"some-medicare-beneficiaries-will-have-more-opportunities-to-elect-personal-supports-and-services-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14206","title":{"rendered":"Some Medicare beneficiaries will have more opportunities to elect personal supports and services for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare\u2019s Annual Election period also called the Medicare Fall Open Enrollment period or Fall Annual Enrollment Period for 2020 begins on Oct. 15 and runs through December 7, during which Medicare beneficiaries will have more opportunities to join Medicare Advantage (MA) managed care plans that offer limited personal supports and services such as home care, non-medical transportation, nutrition programs, and home modifications. \u00a0Medicare participants will pay no additional premiums for the additional benefits, nor will Medicare pay the plans extra money to run the programs. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/howardgleckman\/2019\/10\/07\/medicare-advantage-plans-are-expanding-personal-supports-and-services-for-2020\/#14fb6e635f1b\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>Medicare\u2019s Annual Election period also called the Medicare Fall Open Enrollment period or Fall Annual Enrollment Period for 2020 begins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","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=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14207,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}