Hospital’s Aetna Medicare partnership ends
- Category: Community, Announcement
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- Written By: Deb Sutton, Marketing Director
Aetna Medicare Value Plan
won’t offer Medicare plan next year
Aetna Medicare Value Plan will not offer a Medicare plan in Wyoming in 2025, opening the gates for those insured under the plan to make other arrangements.
This also means Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s participation in Aetna’s Medicare network will end effective Jan. 1, 2025.
“This is a huge opportunity that opens the doors for a variety of options,” said Melida Marin, a Patient Financial Navigator at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County. “This gives people the chance to now enroll in a supplemental plan.”
According to the notice sent by Aetna:
- If you don't take action before Dec. 31, 2024, you will lose your prescription drug coverage and only be covered by Original Medicare starting Jan. 1, 2025.
- Even if Medicare places you in Original Medicare, you still have other opportunities to join a Medicare Health or drug plan. Because your plan will no longer be available to you, and to provide you additional time to evaluate your options, you have a special opportunity to join a new plan any time until Feb. 28, 2025. If you join a new Medicare plan AFTER Dec. 31, your coverage in the new plan won't start until the month after you join.
- If you don't join a plan with prescription drug coverage or a stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan with Original Medicare by Feb. 28, 2025, you won't have prescription drug coverage in 2025 and may have to pay a lifetime Part D late-enrollment penalty if you join a Medicare prescription drug plan later.
- You need to choose how you want to get your health and prescription drug coverage. Review your options for Medicare coverage and decide which is best for you.
- Call Wyoming State Health Insurance Information Program at 1-800-856-4398 or TTY: 711, Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Counselors are available to answer questions.
If you have questions, please contact MHSC Patient Financial Navigators Melida Marin and Megan Benedict at 307-352-8202. No appointment needed; walk-ins are welcome!