{"id":2396,"date":"2016-03-25T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:34:17","slug":"a-little-known-rule-allows-you-to-change-your-medicare-advantage-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"A Little Known Rule Allows You to Change Your Medicare Advantage Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, a policy concerning \u201cspecial enrollment period\u201d for Medicare Advantage plans went into effect. The change allows members to switch Medicare Advantage plans or join traditional Medicare if their current plan experiences a \u201csignificant\u201d change in their provider network.\u00a0\u00a0 This does not apply to those plans that Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services oversees in the health care marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Insurers are required by the government to make sure their smaller provider network meet minimum standards and their members\u2019 needs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/03\/24\/471613036\/feds-grant-some-early-switches-when-medicare-advantage-networks-change\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026\u2026<\/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>In 2015, a policy concerning \u201cspecial enrollment period\u201d for Medicare Advantage plans went into effect. The change allows members to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}