Medicare Advantage As Part of Retirement Package

[VaDwayne]

I have a huge company in my hometown that offers their retirees an Aetna PFFS plan as part of their benefit package? I am speaking with the wife of one of those retirees, actually I have about 100 to call IF Aetna looks at those plans the same way as they do individual MA's, dropping their PFFS plans in 2010. It may be a moot point because I'm sure the company will just replace those plans with another MA,but there are some retirees that are fed up and I could easily get some supps out of it.

Does anybody have an idea if the individual plans are looked at differently than group plans?

 

[MedSuppPro]

Try to go after the entire group...

The one thing that sticks out on a case like this is coverage gap. Aetna has group retiree plans with real strong Rx coverage through the gap. (I'm assuming MA-PD)

Walk slowly. I know it looks tempting, but, try to isolate the complaints. See if their issues are real. Some retiree groups have retirees with a huge entitlement mentalities.

I doubt Aetna knows what they will do with their 2010 group plans. The Aetna individual is separate and your correct that the group would migrate to a different plan if something happens.