Forbes May 30, 2019
Bruce Japsen

Lyft is signing new contracts and targeting a booming number of Medicare beneficiaries choosing private Advantage plans as a lucrative new growth area for the ride-sharing company.

New rules that allow health insurance companies to include more supplemental benefits in their Medicare Advantage plans is opening the door to Lyft and rivals to have more of their services woven into benefits for next year. Health plan bids to participate in Medicare Advantage for 2020 are due Monday, June. 3.

“We expect to be working with the majority of the largest MA plans by 2020,” said Lyft’s vice president of healthcare Megan Callahan, who was hired last year to lead the company’s growing healthcare businesses.

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