{"id":22644,"date":"2024-03-29T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22644"},"modified":"2024-03-29T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:10:10","slug":"your-doctor-or-your-insurer-little-known-rules-may-ease-the-choice-in-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22644","title":{"rendered":"Your Doctor or Your Insurer? Little-Known Rules May Ease the Choice in Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Susan Jaffe for KFF Health News on March 29, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a tough choice in January: The upstate New York couple learned that this year they could keep either their private, Medicare Advantage insurance plan \u2014 or their doctors at Saratoga Hospital. <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/medicare-advantage-breakups-contracts-hospitals-doctors-patients-choice\/\">Here.. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/medicare-advantage-breakups-contracts-hospitals-doctors-patients-choice\/\">.<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Jaffe for KFF Health News on March 29, 2024 Bart Klion, 95, and his wife, Barbara, faced a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,6,9],"tags":[80,61,62,94],"class_list":["post-22644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22645,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions\/22645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}