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My Wife Is In a Skilled Nursing Facility. Can I Change Her Medicare Advantage Plan to a Medicare Supplement?

March 25, 2014 / Barbara Hogan / Long-Term Care Insurance, Medicare Insurance, Social Security
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Medicare allows you a special election period to make a change while in a skilled nursing facility; it begins the first day your wife  is in the Skilled Nursing Facility and ends 2 months after her discharge from the skilled nursing facility.  However, that special election period only allows enrollment onto a Medicare Advantage Plan or onto a stand-alone drug plan.

If she elects to go onto a stand-alone drug plan, it will terminate her current Medicare Advantage plan and place her onto Medicare Part A and B.  To go onto a Medicare supplement, she would need to pass the underwriting for a supplement carrier and could be declined.  Please be aware that if she is unable to pass underwriting and has only Medicare  Part A and B for her medical coverage, it leaves you with financial responsibility for all the copays/coinsurances that Part A and Part B do not cover.

benefits, drug coverage, making changes under medicare, medicare advantage, medicare supplement, part A, Part B, part C, part d, special election period, stand-alone drug plan

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