UCare Advocate Choice and UCare Advocate Plus (HMO I-SNP)*
UCare offers a health plan designed for you
UCare has teamed up with Bluestone Physician Services, CareChoice, Fairview Partners, Genevive and Lifespark Health to offer a health plan specifically designed for adults living in a nursing home, assisted living or memory care facility.
Is UCare Advocate Choice or UCare Advocate Plus right for you?
Plan members:
- Have Medicare Part A and Part B
- Live in a participating facility within the 18-county UCare Advocate service area
- Receive or qualify for long-term care in a nursing home, assisted living or memory care facility
UCare Advocate Choice and UCare Advocate Plus offer:
- Complete care focused on your unique medical and emotional needs
- Primary care where you live — no need to leave your home for primary care visits
- Enhanced dental coverage, including a dental allowance and no-cost dental kit with an electric toothbrush
- Hearing aid allowance through UCare and TruHearing®
- No-cost routine eye exam and eyewear allowance
- Strong & Stable fall prevention kit
- Unlimited routine foot care (does not require a specific diagnosis)
Contact us
Questions? Call and talk to a UCare Agent.
1-877-671-1054, TTY 1-800-688-2534
8 am – 5 pm, seven days a week
Participating facilities
Participating facilities are affiliated with these partner organizations (external links):
- AccuraHealthcare
- Amira Choice
- Assumption Community
- Benedictine
- Cassia (An Augustana / Elim Affiliation)
- Catholic Eldercare
- Cherrywood Pointe
- Cokato Charitable Trust
- Ebenezer
- Ecumen
- Friendship Village
- Good Samaritan Society
- Good Shepherd Lutheran
- Guardian Angels Senior Services
- Jones Harrison Senior Living
- Lifespark Senior Living
- Lyngblomsten
- Minnesota Masonic Home
- Mount Olivet Homes
- North Cities Health Care
- North Ridge Health and Rehab
- Northfield Retirement Community
- Presbyterian Homes & Services
- Shakopee Friendship Manor
- Sholom
- St. Francis Health System
- St. Otto’s Care Center
- St. Therese
- The Waters Senior Living
- Three Links Care Center
- Trillium Woods
- Villa Healthcare
- Volunteers of America
- Walker Methodist
Participating facilities include locations in these groups. Contact UCare Sales to confirm participation status of your facility. Last updated 9/26/2022.
Important information for current members
- Search the Medicare Formulary (List of Covered Drugs)
- 2023 UCare Advocate Provider and Pharmacy Directory (PDF)
- 2023 UCare Advocate Choice and UCare Advocate Plus Summary of Benefits (PDF)
- 2023 UCare Advocate Choice Evidence of Coverage (PDF)
- 2023 UCare Advocate Plus Evidence of Coverage (PDF)
- Questions and Answers about Health Care Directives (PDF)
- UCare Advocate Choice and Advocate Plus (ISNP) Service Area Map (PDF)
Each year, Medicare rates plans based on their health and drug services. In 2023, UCare's Institutional Special Needs Plans (I-SNP) received 4.5 stars.
*UCare Advocate Choice and UCare Advocate Plus are HMO I-SNP plans with Medicare contracts. Enrollment in UCare Advocate Choice and Advocate Plus depends on contract renewal.