I have an AARP UHC Supplement (Plan G) and they give me Active Renew which does give free gym memberships. That said, some gyms are "Premium" and you only get on a Medicare Advantage plan. They aren't gyms I want so I don't mind.
How did you find the ones that are only on Medicare Advantage? The Renew Active locator I use (renewactive.com) doesn't differentiate, that I can tell. I'm curious about which ones would participate in Advantage but not the supplement.
You can make a request on the UHC website that a facility be added. It might not help but you never know!
It's worth giving it a shot. Gyms do go in and out of the system.
The YMCA of Metropolitan Washington (D.C.) recently stopped participating in Renew Active. They sent an email saying they were not able to reach an agreement for the YMCA to continue offering Renew Active in 2024 "under the existing offering" (whatever that is) and our memberships expired 1-31-24.
As of 1-1-24, all Lifetime Fitness locations started limiting Renew Active members to only certain hours, except for Arora aqua classes (whatever those are).
I do kind of wonder if more gyms are going to start instituting restrictions; I could see them requiring payment for pickleball for Renew Active members. I was told by the membership director at a YMCA (not one in Washington) that Renew Active pays for only five visits per member per month at this YMCA, and after the member's fifth visit, they don't get paid anything. I wish I'd been bold enough to ask how much they get paid for the visits they do get paid for.
I really want to look under the hood of Renew Active and its participating gyms, but it's totally opaque. I'd like to know how much my robust Renew Active participation is costing them.
Oh, and I got the AARP/UHC call, too. I'm certain it's legit. But I ignored the message they left and they never called back.