{"id":25424,"date":"2026-01-09T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25424"},"modified":"2026-01-09T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:14:57","slug":"what-changes-can-you-make-during-medicare-advantage-open-enrollment-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25424","title":{"rendered":"What changes can you make during Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (MAOEP) is now underway. \u00a0It starts on January 1 and ends on March 31 every year. During this period, you can switch Medicare Advantage plans or leave a Medicare Advantage plan and return to Original Medicare. Lindsey Copeland, writing for the Medicare Rights Center, explains what changes are allowed during this time. Read Ms. Copeland\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicarerights.org\/medicare-watch\/2026\/01\/08\/medicare-advantage-enrollees-have-until-march-31-to-make-certain-coverage-changes\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.medicarerights.org\/medicare-watch\/2026\/01\/08\/medicare-advantage-enrollees-have-until-march-31-to-make-certain-coverage-changes\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (MAOEP) is now underway. \u00a0It starts on January 1 and ends on March 31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,9,46,15],"tags":[80,61,62,380,65,117,94],"class_list":["post-25424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-advantage-open-enrollment-period","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-medigap","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424","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=25424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25425,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions\/25425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}