{"id":7895,"date":"2022-12-28T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2022-12-28T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T15:28:49","slug":"medicare-oep-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/medicare-oep-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period \u2013 January 1 through March 31<\/strong><br \/>\nDid you know that Medicare offers beneficiaries who are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan one last opportunity to switch their plan during the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (MA OEP)?<\/p>\n<p>The Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period runs from January 1 to March 31 each year. During this time, if a Medicare Beneficiary is enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan they are unhappy with, they can still make a change to their plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does this mean for your practice?<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you have patients who may have chosen the wrong Medicare Advantage plan (i.e., one that your practice does not accept), please remind them of the Medicare Advantage plans that you do accept (Health New England, etc.). Also, remind them that they have the opportunity to change plans during the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period.<\/p>\n<p>To make a change, a Medicare beneficiary can call the plan they wish to enroll in directly or by calling Medicare at 1-800-MEDICARE.<\/p>\n<p>Please share the following Health New England Medicare contact information with your patients. Our team of local experts is here to help them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health New England Medicare Contact Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Member Services &#8211; Toll-free: (877) 443-3314 | Local: (413) 787-0010 | TTY: 711<\/li>\n<li>Call or email the Medicare Team directly at (413) 233-3033 or <a href=\"mailto:msupport@hne.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">msupport@hne.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Learn more about our Medicare plans at <a href=\"http:\/\/healthnewengland.org\/medicare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthnewengland.org\/medicare<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7898 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Capture.jpg?resize=582%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Capture.jpg?w=582 582w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Capture.jpg?resize=300%2C116 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Capture.jpg?resize=500%2C193 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Information for Patients about Medicare Advantage OEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (OEP)<\/strong> lasts from <strong>January 1 to March 31<\/strong> every year.<\/p>\n<p>During OEP, you can make certain changes to your Medicare Advantage plan coverage. Any changes you make to your plan during OEP will take effect on the <strong>first day of the following month after<\/strong> your current plan has processed your requested change.<\/p>\n<p>During the Medicare Advantage OEP, you can make the following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Switch from one Medicare Advantage plan to another<\/li>\n<li>Disenroll from your current Medicare Advantage and return to Original Medicare<\/li>\n<li>If you return to Original Medicare during OEP, you\u2019ll also be able to join a Medicare Part D drug plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries can only make one change during OEP. Once a change has been made during OEP, it cannot be changed again until the next Annual Enrollment Period (AEP), which runs October 15 \u2013 December 7.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you have any questions about the information in this notice, please contact Health New England Provider Relations at (800) 842-4464, extension 5000. A representative is available Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period \u2013 January 1 through March 31 Did you know that Medicare offers beneficiaries who are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan one last opportunity to switch their plan during the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (MA OEP)? The Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period runs from January 1 to March 31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[86,21,128,130,131,129],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provider-newsletter","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-oep","tag-medicare-patients","tag-medicare-providers","tag-open-enrollment-period"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-23l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}