{"id":14648,"date":"2019-12-03T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2019-12-03T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:49:03","slug":"no-itch-to-switch-few-medicare-beneficiaries-switch-plans-during-the-open-enrollment-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14648","title":{"rendered":"No Itch to Switch: Few Medicare Beneficiaries Switch Plans During the Open Enrollment Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Wyatt Koma, Juliette Cubanski, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman for The Kaiser Family Foundation, published December 2, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Each year, Medicare beneficiaries in private Medicare Advantage plans and Part D stand-alone prescription drug plans (PDPs) have the opportunity to change plans during the annual open enrollment period (October 15 to December 7). Medicare\u2019s private plans vary significantly from each other and can change from one year to the next, which can have a significant impact on enrollees\u2019 coverage and costs. The Centers for Medicaid &amp; Medicare Services (CMS)\u00a0encourages\u00a0beneficiaries to shop for Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans to potentially save money on prescriptions or get new benefits.\u00a0 Continue reading article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/medicare\/issue-brief\/no-itch-to-switch-few-medicare-beneficiaries-switch-plans-during-the-open-enrollment-period\/\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7499\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kaiser-Family-Foundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Wyatt Koma, Juliette Cubanski, Gretchen Jacobson, Anthony Damico, and Tricia Neuman for The Kaiser Family Foundation, published December 2,<\/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-14648","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\/14648","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=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14651,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions\/14651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}