{"id":11612,"date":"2018-09-26T09:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:07:42","slug":"misconceptions-about-switching-medicare-advantage-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11612","title":{"rendered":"Misconceptions about switching Medicare Advantage plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Medicare beneficiaries can change their Medicare Advantage or Medicare Prescription drug (Part D) coverage during the Medicare Annual Election Period (AEP) which takes place from October 15 until December 7 every year. However, 78 percent of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries don\u2019t take advantage of the Medicare AEP because they have misconceptions about what switching plans entails. The attached article list three of the most common ones. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbesfinancecouncil\/2018\/09\/26\/three-common-misconceptions-about-the-upcoming-medicare-annual-election-period\/#2ae46d151520\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare beneficiaries can change their Medicare Advantage or Medicare Prescription drug (Part D) coverage during the Medicare Annual Election Period<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11613,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions\/11613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}