During the Annual Open Enrollment, there is a higher risk than usual for fraudulent activities. Medicare has rules about how plans can and cannot communicate with you during the Annual Open Enrollment to market their insurance products. Knowing how to protect yourself...
Some Medicare Advantage Plans cover services that are not covered by Original Medicare.Common supplemental benefits include: Dental care. Vision care. Hearing aids. Starting in 2019, Medicare Advantage Plans were granted more flexibility in the supplemental...
Medicare Supplement insurance policies, commonly called Medigaps, are health insurance policies that offer standardized benefits to work with Original Medicare (not with Medicare Advantage). They are sold by private insurance companies. If you have a Medigap, it pays...
As a result of federal legislation, individuals who were newly eligible for Medicare on or after January 1, 2020, cannot purchase Medigap Plan C or Plan F (including the Plan F high deductible option). This is because, after January 1, 2020, this law prevented...
The Marketplaces do not affect your Medicare. Medicare Advantage Plans, Part D plans, and Medigap policies are not sold through the Marketplace. If you are eligible for Medicare, you should not use the Marketplace to get health and drug coverage, with two exceptions....
You should make any necessary changes to your Medicare coverage by December 7, 2020, in order for the changes to take effect on January 1, 2021. If in 2021, you need to change your Medicare coverage, you may have the opportunity to make changes, if: You have a...
