{"id":2710,"date":"2016-04-27T05:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2016-04-26T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:04:09","slug":"has-medicare-advantage-plans-lost-their-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"Has Medicare Advantage Plans Lost Their Appeal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Western Pennsylvania, recently more retirees are choosing traditional Medicare plan with a Medigap supplement instead of Medicare Advantage plans. According to Bill McKendree, coordinator for Allegheny County\u2019s Apprise program, \u201cwhen individuals new to Medicare are presented with balanced, objective and comprehensive descriptions of both Medigaps and Advantage plans, there is a better than 60 percent likelihood that they will select coverage through Medicare Parts A and B supplemented with a Medigap.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/business\/healthcare-business\/2016\/04\/26\/New-enrollees-rethinking-Medicare-Advantage-option\/stories\/201604260015\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026..<\/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>In Western Pennsylvania, recently more retirees are choosing traditional Medicare plan with a Medigap supplement instead of Medicare Advantage plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}