Medicare Plan To Offer Alternative Care Option

Alliance Medicare drug and managed care plan members will be able to get discounts on care from chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists and other providers in a network managed by American Specialty’s American Specialty Health Networks Inc. unit.

Plan members will be able to get discounts on purchases of nutrition bars, dietary supplements, tobacco cessation tools and other health and wellness products through American Specialty’s HealthyRoads unit.

The HealthyRoads unit also will sell membership in exercise clubs, weight-management clubs and other wellness clubs to alliance Medicare plan members for an added fee, American Specialty says.