{"id":2019,"date":"2016-02-18T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2016-02-18T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:15:59","slug":"understanding-medicare-advantages-trial-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Medicare Advantage&#8217;s &#8220;Trial Period&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare beneficiaries in their first year of coverage under a Medicare Advantage plan have\u00a0an option of returning to their Medigap coverage within the first 12 months if their\u00a0previous plan is available. This is a little-known option, and it&#8217;s explained in an article posted on\u00a0medicare.com by David Hambly,\u00a0a licensed insurance agent specializing in Medicare programs. <a href=\"https:\/\/medicare.com\/medicare-advantage\/what-is-your-medicare-advantage-trial-right\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check the article out here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\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>Medicare beneficiaries in their first year of coverage under a Medicare Advantage plan have\u00a0an option of returning to their Medigap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}