Medicare Enrollment Starts Earlier This Year

This year there is a new, earlier deadline if you want to change your Medicare Part D coverage for 2012. Open enrollment runs from October 15th to December 7th. Open enrollment gives you the chance to switch to another Part D prescription drug plan or to another Medicare advantage plan, or from traditional Medicare to a Medicare Advantage Plan and vice versa. During the enrollment period, you can compare the costs and benefits of your current coverage with the coverage of other plans. If you change coverage, your new coverage will start January 1, 2012.

To check plans, go to medicare.gov, or you can call David Jaeger of Banker's Life who volunteers his time to help you make the right choice. Call David to make an appointment. He will come to Park Regency to meet with you. His phone number is (970) 402-8629.