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This excerpt taken from the UNH 10-K filed Mar 1, 2005. Ovations Senior & Retiree Services
Ovations Senior & Retiree Services division provides health care coverage for the seniors market primarily through the Medicare Advantage (formerly Medicare+Choice) program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In the fourth quarter of 2004, Ovations Senior Retiree Services began offering rural Medicare Advantage Private Fee For Service coverage, servicing 169 rural counties in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Under these programs, Ovations provides health insurance coverage to eligible Medicare beneficiaries in exchange for a fixed monthly premium per member from CMS that varies based on the geographic areas in which the members reside. Through these programs, 330,000 individual Medicare beneficiaries and hundreds of employer retiree groups were served as of December 31, 2004.
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