{"id":25480,"date":"2026-01-23T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25480"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:40:43","slug":"dont-miss-this-chance-to-change-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25480","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t miss this chance to change plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Medicare Advantage open enrollment period runs from January 1st through March 31, 2026. \u00a0If you missed your chance during Medicare open enrollment, you can now switch to another Medicare Advantage Plan (with or without drug coverage). Or, you can drop your Medicare Advantage Plan and go back to Original Medicare. Kailey Hagen, writing for The Motley Fool, advises Medicare Advantage enrollees that this could be their last opportunity to elect new healthcare coverage for 2026. Read Ms. Hagen\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2026\/01\/22\/last-opportunity-to-elect-new-medicare-coverage\/\">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>The Medicare Advantage open enrollment period runs from January 1st through March 31, 2026. \u00a0If you missed your chance during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,9,15],"tags":[80,385,61,62,380,65,94],"class_list":["post-25480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","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\/25480","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=25480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25481,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions\/25481"}],"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=25480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}