AARP/UHC Renew Active change for 2025

That’s great to hear. Do you know if these premium additions also include Club Pilates, Stretch Lab and Exercise Coach? It would be worth it if that were the case. 

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@DianaR709797 wrote:

  I am also VERY unhappy about the changes for 2025 from Active & Fit.  I used Orange Theory, Exercise Coach, and Stretch Lab.  These programs keep you strong and healthy with no injuries.  It is a shame money comes before the health of older people.  

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In this instance, they are using the money now to actually supply health care - treatments and medicines, depending on the plan type - to the older people who need them.  

Remember, Medicare, is a healthcare program that is for people age 65 to 100 + or death, whichever comes 1st.  It also takes care of those who have been declared disabled or who need treatment for ESRD or ALS - so probably high real healthcare users.

If the wellness exercise program is important to you and your health and well-being - carry on with your own health dollars cause I am sure that many on Medicare would rather have their necessary treatments, procedures and medicines are covered.  

It is the actual use of the dollars and where the beneficiaries find need of them - you may feel this way too when and if the need arises.  

United Health Care is the ONLY company they suggest on their site and how they advertise it there implies they recommend it (they are careful not to outright say that). And yes they (well their for profit arm that is) get about 1.2 billion a year from their 4.95% royalty fee each of us have tacked on to our premiums (along with who knows how much more to take care of all the administrative costs of doing that) with United Healthcare that is then paid to AARP. 

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@tj24518109 wrote:

The loss of the gym membership has left me baffled. I guess the desired option is to be less healthy and use more services. This change, the loss of the gym membership, is a big deal for me.

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Are you saying your plan no longer has a Renew Active gym membership benefit at all?  I was under the impression that they just changed the benefit, eliminating some of the participating locations.  Yours dropped it entirely?

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@tj24518109 wrote:

 {to all be fixed by JFK jr; no doubt]

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Eh, I doubt it.  JFK Jr. died in a plane crash a couple of decades ago.

no updates. If you have UHC supplement or Medicare advantage plan, you can login to their site, click on health & wellness & then ‘find a gym’.

it sounds like supplements keep the premium gyms except those that were removed from the renew active network, and Medicare advantage has no premium gyms- but this could be location dependent.

@mary335ix 

Medicare Advantage plans have to be renewed EVERY year during open enrollment from Oct 7 - Dec 15 - During that fall period your plan is suppose to send you an updated Explanation of Coverage with ALL the things that would be changing for the policy that takes effect for the next year.  IF you want to keep the plan for the next year then you take no action and the plan will renew.  If you want to make a change to a new Medicare Advantage plan then you pick it and your Medicare account will be updated with the new policy and the old one drops off - this all takes effect on 01/01 for the next year.

I assume that dropping this extra benefit of gym membership would have been one of the things that changed in your Medicare Advantage plan but there may also be some changes that might effect your healthcare too - like network changes, formulary changes, copays or deductibles and total out of pocket cost.

There were many changes in the plan for 2025 especially in the formulary area.  You might just check these changes and if they are also gonna affect you too.