{"id":1023,"date":"2014-10-07T20:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2014-10-07T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:55:46","slug":"open-enrollment-starts-october-15th-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Open Enrollment Starts October 15th &#8211; Are you ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year, hip hip hooray,<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPEN ENROLLMENT IS COMING ON OCTOBER 15TH!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start exploring your options now. The links below have more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Center for Benefits Access\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncoa.org\/enhance-economic-security\/center-for-benefits\/\">Center for Benefits Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Medicare Open Enrollment Period\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicarematters.org\/about-medicare\/when-to-enroll\/open-enrollment-period\/?SID=543450bd73c66\">Medicare Open Enrollment Period<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicarematters.org\/about-medicare\/new-to-medicare-advice-for-your-situation\/?SID=543450bd73c66\">If you aren&#8217;t sure when you need to sign up check out this advice.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicarematters.org\/about-medicare\/new-medicare\/?SID=543450bd73c66\">5 Key Steps for those new to Medicare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Medicare Quick Check\" href=\"https:\/\/medicarequickcheck.benefitscheckup.org\/medicare-quick-check\/?SID=543450bd73c66\">Take the Medicare Quick Check<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some important points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<address>There is an <a title=\"Initial enrollment period\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicarematters.org\/about-medicare\/when-to-enroll\/initial-enrollment-period\/?SID=543450bd73c66\">initial enrollment perio<\/a>d 3 months before your 65th birthday during the month of your 65th birthday and 3 months after your 65th birthday) when you must sign up or you may have pay a penalty.<\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<address><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicarematters.org\/about-medicare\/medicare-card\/?SID=543450bd73c66\">After you join, Medicare will send you a card.<\/a><\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open enrollment runs each year from October 15 to December 7<\/li>\n<li>During the open enrollment period, anyone who has Medicare Parts A &amp; B can:\n<ul>\n<li>Change from <span class=\"glossaryLink \" title=\"\" data-tooltip=\"Also called \u201cfee-for-service Medicare\u201d \u2013 Medicare Parts A and B.\">Original Medicare<\/span> to a private <a title=\"Part C \u2013 Medicare Advantage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mymedicarematters.org\/about-medicare\/types-of-coverage\/part-c-medicare-advantage\/?SID=543450bd73c66\">Medicare Advantage<\/a> plan.<\/li>\n<li>Change from <span class=\"glossaryLink \" title=\"\" data-tooltip=\"A private managed health care plan, also known as Part C or Medicare health plans. Some MA plans may include prescription drug coverage. You must have Medicare Parts A and B to enroll in Medicare Advantage. Also known as MA.\">Medicare Advantage<\/span> back to Original Medicare.<\/li>\n<li>Join, drop, or switch a <span class=\"glossaryLink \" title=\"\" data-tooltip=\"Part D is Medicare\u2019s prescription drug benefit.\">Part D<\/span> prescription drug plan.<\/li>\n<li>Switch Medicare Advantage plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Your coverage will start January 1 of the following year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year, hip hip hooray, OPEN ENROLLMENT IS COMING ON OCTOBER 15TH! Start exploring your options now. The links below have more information: Center for Benefits Access Medicare Open Enrollment Period If you aren&#8217;t sure when you need to sign up check out this advice. 5 Key Steps for those new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,164],"tags":[317],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-information","category-open-enrollment","tag-open-enrollment","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plinylives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}