2022 Medicare Presentation Medicare Corner
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This project was supported, in part by grant number 90SAPG0049, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy 02/05/21
Medicare 2022 — Did you know? Know your opportunities to change coverage in 2022. Excerpt from Medicare Minute shared by 2022 Medicare Rights Cente r
You may be able to change your coverage in 2022 outside of the Open Enrollment Period, depending on your circumstances. • If you have a Medicare Advantage Plan , you have one opportunity from January 1 through March 31 to change your plan or switch back to Original Medicare with or without a prescription drug plan. • You might also qualify to return to your Medigap plan if you had one. • If you think a government employee made a mistake while assisting you , contact 1-800-MEDICARE and explain your situation. You may be approved to change your coverage. • If you have Extra Help, an assistance program that helps pay for Part D prescription drug costs, you can make one change per quarter for the first three quarters of the year. Understand that the public health emergency may affect your coverage in 2022.
Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, or PHE , certain flexibilities have been in place and some restrictions lifted in 2020 and 2021. Examples of these flexibilities include expanded coverage of telehealth services. • Coverage for 90-day supplies of prescription drugs when requested. • As of December 17, 2021, the PHE declaration will be in place through January 16, 2022. The PHE declaration has been extended multiple times previously, but there is no indication that it will again be extended. If the PHE expires, many of the current flexibilities and lifted restrictions may expire as well. Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are working to extend some of these flexibilities, regardless of the PHE status, so details of how these Medicare coverage rules will change are still being discussed. To stay up to date on this evolving conversation, pay attention to the news, your local SHIP, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS for short.
This project was supported, in part by grant number 90SAPG0049, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official ACL policy
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