{"id":9150,"date":"2018-01-04T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:13:22","slug":"do-you-want-to-drop-your-medicare-advantage-plan-and-go-back-to-original-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9150","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to drop your Medicare Advantage plan and go back to original Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1<sup>st<\/sup>, two separate Medicare enrollment periods began.\u00a0 Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Period, which lasts until February 14<sup>th<\/sup>, is for people enrolled in an Advantage Plan for 2018 who want to switch to original Medicare.\u00a0 If you missed your initial Medicare enrollment period, you can sign up for coverage during what\u2019s called General Enrollment Period, which lasts through March 31<sup>st<\/sup>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/03\/if-youre-tired-of-medicare-advantage-now-is-the-time-to-ditch.html\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/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>On January 1st, two separate Medicare enrollment periods began.\u00a0 Medicare Advantage Disenrollment Period, which lasts until February 14th, is for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9150","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\/9150","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=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9151,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions\/9151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}