{"id":18998,"date":"2021-10-22T07:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T11:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18998"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T11:09:30","slug":"most-medicare-beneficiaries-dont-shop-around-for-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18998","title":{"rendered":"Most Medicare Beneficiaries Don\u2019t Shop Around for Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Wyatt Koma,\u00a0Meredith Freed\u00a0,\u00a0Juliette Cubanski, and\u00a0Tricia Neuman for Kaiser Family Foundation published October 21, 2021)<\/p>\n

The Medicare open enrollment period is now underway, and beneficiaries are encouraged to review their coverage options to see if they can get better coverage or lower costs by switching plans. However, about 7 in 10 (71%) beneficiaries say they did not compare plans during a recent open enrollment period, and some groups were even less likely to do so.\u00a0 Continue reading the issue brief here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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(Wyatt Koma,\u00a0Meredith Freed\u00a0,\u00a0Juliette Cubanski, and\u00a0Tricia Neuman for Kaiser Family Foundation published October 21, 2021) The Medicare open enrollment period is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998","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=18998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18999,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18998\/revisions\/18999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}