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Does all Medicare private coverage have open enrollment periods?
For Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D, there’s an annual open enrollment period (October 15 to December 7, with enrollments effective January 1 of the coming year). During this time, you can switch to any other Medicare Advantage or Part D plan available in your area, regardless of your medical history.
Medicare Advantage (Part C) private health plans
Medicare Advantage plans provide Medicare-covered benefits through private insurance companies, which receive payments from Medicare to cover beneficiary medical costs.
Private fee-for-service plans are a type of Medicare Advantage plan. Some have provider networks, while others will allow you to receive care from any hospital or doctor that accepts the plan’s coverage.
Reimbursements to doctors are not the same as they’d be under Original Medicare, and doctors are free to determine whether or not they’ll accept the plan’s patients. Enrollees in private fee-for-service plans do not have to have a referral from a primary care doctor in order to see a specialist. More details about private fee-for-service plans are available here.
Private fee-for-service plans sometimes include prescription drug coverage, but if they don’t, you’re allowed to purchase a stand-alone prescription drug plan (that’s not the case with other Medicare Advantage plans, unless they’re Medicare Medical Savings Account Plans). More details about this are available here and here.
For Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D, there’s an annual open enrollment period (October 15 to December 7, with enrollments effective January 1 of the coming year). During this time, you can switch to any other Medicare Advantage or Part D plan available in your area, regardless of your medical history.
Medicare Advantage plans provide Medicare-covered benefits through private insurance companies, which receive payments from Medicare to cover beneficiary medical costs.
For Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D, there’s an annual open enrollment period (October 15 to December 7, with enrollments effective January 1 of the coming year). During this time, you can switch to any other Medicare Advantage or Part D plan available in your area, regardless of your medical history.
Medicare Advantage plans provide Medicare-covered benefits through private insurance companies, which receive payments from Medicare to cover beneficiary medical costs.
