{"id":25443,"date":"2026-01-14T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25443"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:58:47","slug":"why-march-31st-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25443","title":{"rendered":"Why March 31st is important"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a Medicare Advantage enrollee, there is one date you need to circle on your calendar: March 31st. Why this date? It is the end of the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period that started on Jan. 1. This is the deadline for you to make sure that your current healthcare coverage meets your needs. Christy Bieber, writing for The Motley Fool, explains why March 31st is so important. Read Ms. Bieber\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2026\/01\/14\/why-march-31-is-a-critical-date-for-medicare-advan\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2026\/01\/14\/why-march-31-is-a-critical-date-for-medicare-advan\/\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a Medicare Advantage enrollee, there is one date you need to circle on your calendar: March 31st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,15],"tags":[80,61,62,380,65,94],"class_list":["post-25443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-advantage-open-enrollment-period","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443","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=25443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25444,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions\/25444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}