UCare Advocate Choice and UCare Advocate Plus (HMO I-SNP)
Health care that meets you where you are
UCare has teamed up with Bluestone Physician Services, CareChoice, Fairview Partners, Genevive, Knute Nelson and Lifespark Health to offer a health plan for adults living in a nursing home, assisted living or memory care facility with care coordinators to oversee their care every step of the way.
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 22-county UCare Advocate service area
- Receive or qualify for long-term care in a nursing home, assisted living or memory care facility
UCare Advocate plans offer:
- Complete care focused on your unique needs
- Primary care where you live — no need to travel for primary care visits
- Dedicated care coordinator to help watch over your care, overall health and well-being. Care coordinators work closely with your family and other caregivers, health care providers and UCare.
- Enhanced dental coverage, including a dental allowance and no-cost dental kit
- No-cost routine eye exam and prescription eyewear allowance
- Strong and Stable kit to improve balance and prevent falls
- Unlimited routine foot care (does not require a specific diagnosis)
- Over-the-counter allowance on items such as cough drops, first aid supplies, pain relief and sinus medication
- Annual transportation allowance loaded to your UCare Healthy Benefits+ Visa Card
Get an information kit
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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
UCare Advocate plans service area
Minnesota counties
Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Douglas, Freeborn, Hennepin, Hubbard, Isanti, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Otter Tail, Pope, Ramsey, Rice, Scott, Sherburne, Stearns, Washington and Wright
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
- Cokato Charitable Trust
- Ebenezer
- Ecumen
- Friendship Village
- Good Samaritan Society
- Good Shepherd Lutheran
- Guardian Angels Senior Services
- Jones Harrison Senior Living
- Knute Nelson
- 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
Important information for current members
- Search the Medicare Formulary (List of Covered Drugs)
- 2024 UCare Advocate Provider and Pharmacy Directory (PDF)
- 2024 UCare Advocate Provider and Pharmacy Directory - Spanish (PDF)
- 2024 UCare Advocate Choice and UCare Advocate Plus Summary of Benefits (PDF)
- 2024 UCare Advocate Choice Evidence of Coverage (PDF)
- 2024 UCare Advocate Plus Evidence of Coverage (PDF)
- 2024 UCare Advocate Choice and Advocate Plus (ISNP) Service Area Map (PDF)
- Questions and Answers about Health Care Directives (PDF)
Each year, Medicare rates plans based on their health and drug services. In 2024, UCare's Institutional Special Needs Plans (I-SNP) received 4.5 stars.