Special Enrollment Periods
Some life events may give you the opportunity to change a Medicare Advantage plan. In special circumstances, Medicare may provide you with a special enrollment period. Below is a list of those special events:
– Move out of the service area of your current plan
– Move back to the US from a foreign country
– Move to a new area where the current plan is not available
– Move into or out of a long-term care or skilled nursing facility
– Have been released from jail
– Do not qualify for Medicaid anymore
– Participate in a PACE plan
– Do not have health insurance from your union or employer anymore
– Medicare terminates your current plan
– Medicare sanctions your current plan
– Medicare does not renew your current plan
– You are dual eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare
– Drop your Medigap plan when you participate in a Medicare Advantage plan
– Participate in or lose a State Pharmaceutical Assistance plan
– Participate in the wrong Medicare Advantage plan due to an error from a federal employee
– You have a Special Needs Plan, but now do not have the special need anymore
– Medicare gives the plan in your area a 5-star rating [7]
