{"id":7828,"date":"2022-10-28T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2022-10-28T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:49:48","slug":"2023-product-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/2023-product-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Product Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England reviews our benefit plans each year. Below outlines the upcoming changes our Members are seeing during open enrollment. Each plan year has an effective plan date of January 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Worcester County ConnectorCare Changes for 2023<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Effective January 1, 2023, Health New England ConnectorCare plans will no longer be available in Worcester County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>2023 Medicare Advantage Product Update:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">New in 2023: Baystate Health Preferred (HMO) plan<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">New in 2022: <\/span><\/strong>PPO Plans\n<ul>\n<li>Compass (PPO) &#8211; $0 No Change<\/li>\n<li>Compass Premier (PPO) &#8211; $99 No Change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monthly Premiums:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Value (HMO) $0 \u2013 No Change<\/li>\n<li>Choice (HMO) $46 \u2013 No Change<\/li>\n<li>Plus (HMO) $113 \u2013 No Change<\/li>\n<li>Premium (HMO) $170 \u2013 Changing to $16 (-$2 per month premium decrease)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefit Changes:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Lowered PCP copays on Premium and Plus Plans<\/li>\n<li>Lowered Urgent Care copays on most plans<\/li>\n<li>Increased Eyewear Allowance on all plans<\/li>\n<li>Increased Dental Allowance on all plans<\/li>\n<li>Added Preferred Pharmacy Network = lower pharmacy copays<\/li>\n<li>Added Senior Savings Model = lower copays on insulin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Since the Insulin Reduction Act has been instituted, insulin is capped at $35 a month in all phases (deductible, initial, coverage gap, and catastrophic) and includes LIS beneficiaries. This is mandatory for all Medicare Advantage plans. Health New England is continuing to use Select Insulins in our printed formulary and formulary lookup tool as these insulins were submitted as part of our application for the Senior Savings Model. However, all insulins are capped at $35 even if they were not submitted as part of our application.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7829\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22.png?resize=1014%2C707\" alt=\"\" width=\"1014\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22.png?w=1119 1119w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22.png?resize=300%2C209 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22.png?resize=768%2C535 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22.png?resize=1024%2C714 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22.png?resize=430%2C300 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7830\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22-1.png?resize=1014%2C731\" alt=\"\" width=\"1014\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22-1.png?w=1102 1102w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22-1.png?resize=300%2C216 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22-1.png?resize=768%2C554 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22-1.png?resize=1024%2C739 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-22-1.png?resize=416%2C300 416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7831\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-222.png?resize=1014%2C738\" alt=\"\" width=\"1014\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-222.png?w=1090 1090w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-222.png?resize=300%2C218 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-222.png?resize=768%2C559 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-222.png?resize=1024%2C745 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2023-Product-Updates-11-222.png?resize=412%2C300 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England reviews our benefit plans each year. Below outlines the upcoming changes our Members are seeing during open enrollment. Each plan year has an effective plan date of January 1, 2023. Worcester County ConnectorCare Changes for 2023 Effective January 1, 2023, Health New England ConnectorCare plans will no longer be available in Worcester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provider-newsletter","tag-product-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-22g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7833,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/7833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}