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hap.org/medicare Welcome to your new office. Now that you have the luxury of time, we’d like to help you get in shape. And we’d like to do that with more than mere words. When you choose a HAP Medicare health plan, one of the perks you receive is a Flexible Health Options benefit – up to monthly.* You can use this for any qualified program or activity such as membership at a gym or fitness facility, or memberships that focus on weight management. So when you make the decision to go to your new office, we’ll make it a little easier. Ask. Learn. Understand your Medicare. With a little help from HAP. Call toll-free at (800) 219-4129 or TTY/TDD (800) 649-3777 Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Take the mystery out of Medicare with our Medicare in Minutes video library. A series of short videos that makes it easy to understand your Medicare choices. Visit hap.org/medicare101. HAP Senior Plus (hmo), HAP Senior Plus (hmo-pos), and Alliance Medicare PPO are health plans with Medicare contracts. Enrollment in the plans depends on contract renewals. Alliance Medicare PPO is a product of Alliance Health and Life Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of HAP. Y0076_HMO PPO 2014117 FHO CMS ACCEPTED 10/14/2013
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