Article: Nevada County Seniors Now Have an Affordable Medicare+Choice Option; Government Approves Expansion of PacifiCare's Secure Horizons Plan to Nevada County.

* New $60 Monthly Premium Plan and Low-Cost Prescription Drug Benefit Help Make Health Care More Affordable for Nearly 18,000 Medicare-eligible Beneficiaries in Nevada County

PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. received approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to expand for the first time its Secure Horizons Medicare+Choice plan to Nevada County in Northern California -- a county that until now had no Medicare+Choice option for seniors.

Enrollment in the expanded Secure Horizons service area will be effective Oct. 1, 2004.

According to Howard Phanstiel, PacifiCare's chairman and chief executive officer, the nearly 18,000 ...

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