In 2023, attendees can receive personal health coaching, personalized workout plans, live streaming social classes, and access to 20,000+ fitness centers and 8,600+ home workout videos
SAN DIEGO, October 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Silver&Fit® The Healthy Aging and Exercise program, a popular fitness program offered by many Medicare Advantage plans, offers Medicare beneficiaries more ways to get and stay fit in 2023. The program already offers members access to over 15,000 standard and over 5,000 premium fitness centers. Offerings include national brand chains, YMCAs, and boutique gyms. For those who prefer to exercise at home, the program offers more than 8,600 on-demand exercise videos, including cycling, dance, Pilates, cardio, strength, yoga, HIIT, and meditation. Members can also schedule phone, video, or chat sessions with a certified health coach to support their lifestyle, diet, stress, sleep, or exercise goals. Other features include the ability to personalize training plans and select a 14-day training program that best suits the member’s needs. Through the Silver&Fit Connected!™ program, members can monitor and track their steps and activity through a variety of wearable fitness trackers or apps, and then earn rewards for their steps and activity.
Beginning in 2023, members of the Silver&Fit program will have access to the Silver&Fit Well Being Club, a social club resource network that allows members to learn new skills by attending live-streamed classes and events. There will also be an expanded lineup of 11 at-home fitness kits, including a Pilates kit that includes equipment like a Pilates ball and towel; strength training sets containing dumbbells and exercise bands; and yoga kits with yoga blocks and straps.
“We are very proud to be part of our 15thth anniversary,” said George DeVriesChairman and CEO of American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH), which started the Silver&Fit program in 2007. “More than 4.9 million people in The United States are eligible to participate in the Silver&Fit program and are honored by the members we serve to give us high marks with a 97% satisfaction rate. We hope to continue to improve on that score in 2023 with the introduction of these truly valuable benefits to help members age even more healthily.”
The Silver&Fit program is one of the nation’s leading healthy aging and exercise programs. To learn more about healthy aging, subscribe to the Silver&Fit blog or try one of dozens of free online training courses at https://www.facebook.com/SilverandFit/ or https://www.youtube.com /user/silverandfit from /videos.
Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period runs from October 15th through December 7, 2022 and offers Medicare beneficiaries the opportunity to enroll in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan if they don’t already have one. In addition, the MA Open Enrollment Period expires January 1st – March 31, 2023, allows MA members to change their MA plan. For information on whether a particular Medicare plan includes the Silver&Fit program, consumers can contact their healthcare plan, call 1-800-MEDICARE, or view the list of participating Silver&Fit Medicare plans here: https://www.silverandfit. com/health-plans.
About American Specialty Health Fitness, Inc. (ASH Fitness)
ASH Fitness, a subsidiary of American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH), offers a growing number of flexible fitness solutions for Medicare, Medicare Supplement and commercial health plans, as well as employer groups, associations and others. The Silver&Fit is part of the fitness program®Active&Fit company™, Active&Fit Direct™ and the Active&Fit Now™ consumer direct programs. ASH is one of the nation’s leading independent and privately held specialty health services organizations. For more information, visit ASHCompanies.com or call 800-848-3555.
Lisa Freiman
Silver&Fit
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SOURCE American Specialty Health Incorporated
