{"id":24,"date":"2011-12-19T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2012-01-11T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T02:08:08","slug":"24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/24\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare AEP ends Dec 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we are again at the end of Medicare Annual Election Period.  Lots of folks think that their options to change or adjust their  coverage are expired, and in some cases they are, but there are still  options. I will try to give a few examples.<\/p>\n<div><strong>If you  enrolled into a new <strong>Medicare Advantage Plan<\/strong>, or decided to stay on your  old one, you still may go back to original  medicare from Jan 1st to Feb 14th. This time period  (known as the Medicare Annual disenrollment period) allows you to go  back to original Medicare and then get a Medicare Supplement plan as  well as a stand alone PDP or prescription drug plan. You may have to go  through underwriting, so make sure you talk to an expert to make sure  you don&#8217;t get left without coverage.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Folks on a  low income subsidy or Medicaid also have the ability to change their  coverage at any time. Now we don&#8217;t always recommend this, but it is an  option.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>For those of you on a Medigap or  medicare supplement, you can change year round. As long as you can  medically qualify, you can change plans as often as you like.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>We at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utahseniorservices.com\/\">www.utahseniorservices.com<\/a> pride ourselves on knowing all your Utah options and being able to give  you the guidance you need to make the right decision. Feel free to  contact us.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>801.979.6365<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utahseniorservices.com\/\">www.utahseniorservices.com<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we are again at the end of Medicare Annual Election Period. Lots of folks think that their options to change or adjust their coverage are expired, and in some cases they are, but there are still options. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/24\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utah-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utahseniorservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}