How to Get Needed Care With Your Medicare Advantage Plan
From annual wellness visits to urgent care, here’s how your Medicare Advantage plan helps you get the care you need.
SCAN Club Issue 4 2023
SCAN Club Issue 4 - 2023
2025 and Looking Good!
Depending on your SCAN plan, you may have some new benefits in 2025, or current benefits that will be even better next year. No matter what your plan, you can expect to save some time or money in 2025—because we know those things are important to you, too.
What’s a Chronic Condition Special Needs Plan (C-SNP)?
If you’re living with a chronic health condition, a C-SNP may be a good option for you. With low or no copays for many of your medications and targeted care, a C-SNP helps you live healthier.
When Can You Change Medicare Advantage Plans, and Why Switch?
Each year, Medicare provides two open enrollment periods to change your coverage. Depending on your situation, you may also be able to switch plans at other times.
Time for a Benefits Checkup!
If you’ve gone to see a doctor this year, you already know you can rely on your SCAN benefits when you need medical care. Are you also taking advantage of the many extra benefits in your SCAN plan that can help you be healthy?
Message from the Editor
The readers have spoken! Discover what SCAN Club readers find most valuable, and share your own feedback.
SCAN Insiders Share Tips You Can Use, Too
You may have talked to a SCAN Senior or Peer Advocate at an event, during a welcome call or on your birthday. These SCAN employees are also SCAN members and their job revolves around talking to other SCAN members. That means they know a thing or two about how a member can get the most from their SCAN benefits. Keep reading for tried-and-true tips from these SCAN “insiders”!
Understanding Medicare Advantage Dental Benefits
Did you know Original Medicare doesn’t include coverage for preventive and routine dental services? Learn about Medicare Advantage dental benefits that are available.
5 Resources to Help You Prepare for the Medicare Annual Enrollment Period
Medicare Annual Enrollment Period goes October 15 through December 7. Here are 5 resources that can help you prepare for enrollment and choose the plan that's right for you.
What is a Medicare Advantage (Part C) plan?
There's a lot to consider when choosing Medicare coverage, especially with so many Medicare plans to choose from. If you're looking at your Medicare options, here's the information you need to know about Medicare Advantage.
4 Tips for a Healthy Relationship With Your Primary Care Doctor
When SCAN primary care physician Dr. Miki Crane sees a new patient, she tells them, “This is a blind date. It’s a chance for us to get to know each other and find out if we can work together.”
5 Health Screenings to Live Well With Diabetes
Here are five tests and screenings that will help you manage your Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes and prevent and detect diabetes-related complications.
