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Alignment Health Plan Expected to Offer Nevada Medicare Advantage PPO Plans, Double Counties Served, Reaching 93% of State’s Medicare-Eligible Adults
Alignment Healthcare to extend its Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans to Carson City and Douglas and Storey counties in 2023, pending regulatory
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[{"type":"text","content":"Alignment Healthcare to extend its Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans to Carson City and Douglas and Storey counties in 2023, pending regulatory approval\nLAS VEGAS and ORANGE, Calif., July 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alignment Health Plan, an award-winning Medicare Advantage plan from Alignment Healthcare (NASDAQ: ALHC), plans to expand into three Nevada counties — Carson City, the state’s capital, and neighboring Douglas and Storey counties — and introduce its preferred provider organization (PPO) plans for the first time to the Silver State, pending regulatory approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).1 If approved, the company’s Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans would be available in six Nevada counties, providing more choice and flexibility to more than 530,000 residents, or 93% of the state’s Medicare-eligible population, beginning Jan. 1, 2023. Among the three fastest growing states for people 65 and over, Nevada is expected to age at higher rates than the rest of the country through 2030, according to Elders Count Nevada 2021, a report from the nonprofit Center for Healthy Aging.2 Access to health care services and infrastructure most used by aging adults, however, varies greatly between urban and rural areas of the state because 87% of Nevada’s seniors live in three counties (Carson City, Clark and Washoe) that make up only 13% of its geographic footprint. Nevadans in the state’s 14 remaining counties, which generally have a higher per capita of older adults, are often forced to travel large distances to maintain their health. “At Alignment Health Plan, we offer all-in-one Medicare Advantage plans designed to meet the health and lifestyle needs of the senior population, whenever and wherever they need it,” said Dawn Maroney, markets president, Alignment Healthcare, and CEO of Alignment Health Plan. “We are eager to introduce our PPO plans to Nevada and extend popular benefits and services such as 24/7 telehealth, mail-order prescription delivery and non-emergency transportation into the state’s capital and its more rural surroundings, giving Nevadans more choice and better access to care.” In Clark, Nye and Washoe counties, the company currently offers HMO plans, including chronic condition special needs plans (HMO C-SNPs) for people with qualifying conditions like diabetes and d...