Considering a change to your Medicare coverage? Consider these 11 factors when choosing between Medicare Advantage, Medigap, and Part D coverage.| medicareresources.org
The date your coverage starts depends on which month you sign up during your Initial Enrollment Period. Coverage always starts on the first of the month.| Medicare
When’s the Medicare Open Enrollment Period? Every year, Medicare’s open enrollment period is October 15 - December 7. What’s the Medicare Open Enrollment Period? Medicare health and drug plans can make changes each year—things like cost, coverage, and what providers and pharmacies are in their networks. October 15 to December 7 is when all people with Medicare can change their Medicare health plans and prescription drug coverage for the following year to better meet their needs.| www.cms.gov
If you don't sign up for Medicare during your Initial Enrollment Period, you may have to pay a late enrollment penalty.| Medicare
Medicare supplement insurance, or Medigap, is insurance that supplements Original Medicare, covering some or all of the out-of-pocket costs that a beneficiary would otherwise have to pay for services covered by Original Medicare.| medicareresources.org
You can make changes to your Medicare Advantage and Medicare drug coverage when certain events happen in your life, like if you move or you lose other coverage.| Medicare
"Extra Help" is a program to help people with limited income and resources pay Part D premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and other costs.| Medicare
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a Medicare and Medicaid program that helps people meet their health care needs in the community instead of going to a nursing home or other care facility.| Medicare
