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.
SCAN Club Issue 4 2023
SCAN Club Issue 4 - 2023
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
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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.
Two SCAN Members Know: Even Active Seniors Can Fall
It was a lazy Sunday morning at home and SCAN member Connie H. wasn't working out at the gym, hiking or doing the other activities that kept the 69-year-old senior fit and active. She was sitting at her kitchen table, wearing a pair of floppy slippers and enjoying a peaceful start to her day—until it wasn't.
How Does a SCAN Medicare Advantage Plan Work?
Medicare plans and benefits can be complicated. Even long-time SCAN members tell us they’re not entirely clear on how their health plan works. So, whether you’re new to Medicare, new to SCAN or have been with SCAN for years, this Medicare plan and benefit information will help you make the most of your Medicare benefits and services.
Problems with Urinary Tract Infections?
It’s always frustrating when things break down: The car is making an odd noise, the computer just won’t start or that leak is back in the kitchen sink. The big challenge is trying to find the root of the problem of an issue so you can address it properly.
