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February 19, 2019

Medicare Advantage: Should you switch?

  • The enrollment window lasts until March 31, giving people with privately run versions of Medicare a chance to change plans or switch to regular Medicare.
    • By TOM MURPHY
    AP Health Writer

    Medicare Advantage enrollees get a new, second chance to find the right health coverage this year.

    The government added another enrollment window that started Jan. 1 and lasts until March 31. It gives people with privately run versions of the federal Medicare program a chance to change plans or switch to regular Medicare. Until now, Medicare Advantage customers who wanted to make a big switch outside the program's annual fall sign-up period had to rely on a shorter, more limited window.


     
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