{"id":372634,"date":"2026-10-14T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372634\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T04:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:09:14","slug":"off-the-news-queens-declines-updated-hmsa-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372634\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the news: Queen\u2019s declines updated HMSA policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\" title=\"The Honolulu Star-Advertiser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sa-media.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/sa-logo.svg\" alt=\"Honolulu Star-Advertiser\" title=\"Honolulu Star-Advertiser\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/>\n                                                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                    Select an option below to continue reading this premium story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? <a onclick=\"hsaGTMEvent(&#039;event&#039;, &#039;click&#039;, {&#039;event_category&#039;: &#039;Paywall Story&#039;, &#039;event_label&#039;: &#039;Log In Button&#039;});\" href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/user-access\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.staradvertiser.com%2F2026%2F10%2F13%2Feditorial%2Foff-the-news%2Foff-the-news-queens-declines-updated-hmsa-policy%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in now<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p>As the federal government reduces supports for Medicare and Medicaid programs, insurance companies providing coverage through these programs are restricting services and raising prices, in Hawaii and nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In Hawaii, the Hawaii Medical Service Association is modifying Advantage plans. HMSA\u2019s new, lowest-cost Advantage plan for Oahu users, \u201cSelect Plus,\u201d will use a \u201chealth maintenance\u201d (HMO) model \u2014 but Queen\u2019s Health Systems has declined to participate in that model. Alternative plans will continue to include Queen\u2019s providers \u2014 at an additional cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-372634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}