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Fort Worth, Texas-Area Medicare HMO to Eliminate Member Premiums.

By Maria M. Perotin, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 4--Secure Horizons, the Metroplex's only Medicare HMO, will improve members' benefits and eliminate their monthly premiums altogether, the company announced this week.

Members will pay less out-of-pocket to visit doctors and buy drugs, and they will get coverage for brand-name drugs. The HMO has 42,000 members in Dallas-Worth.

The changes come in response to Medicare legislation that passed in December that will funnel more money to private insurers

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