Cigna is expanding its Medicare Advantage (MA) presence to southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky for the first time. Choices include plans with $0 premiums and attractive extra features, such as a dental allowance, and hearing, vision and fitness benefits. These plans will be available to Medicare-eligible customers during Medicare's Annual Election Period (AEP), which begins Oct.

15 and continues through Dec. 7. They will be effective Jan. 1, 2023.

Cigna MA plans are now available in the following new counties: Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren, Butler, Greene, Montgomery, Preble, Clark, Miami, Darke, Champaign and Shelby counties in Ohio, as well as Boone, Campbell, Grant, Kenton and Pendleton counties in northern Kentucky. Cigna also continues to offer MA plans in the Cleveland area.