Urgent Notice for Seniors: It’s Time to Check Your Medicare Benefits.

With sweeping changes to the Medicare market looming for 2025, it’s important to ensure that you’re prepared. Several national insurance companies have announced significant modifications to their Medicare offerings, potentially leading to stark consequences—fewer plan options, reduced benefits, and increased costs.

Be sure to scrutinize your benefits during the upcoming Annual Enrollment Period and be ready for the changes ahead. Here are five key areas that require your close attention:

1. Plan Eliminations and Additions First and foremost, check for plan eliminations or additions. Numerous insurance companies are eliminating plans, meaning you may be required to find new Medicare coverage that fits your specific needs. And if you’ve shopped for Medicare coverage before, you likely know it can be a daunting task.

2. Rising Costs Next, changes in cost structures—including things like copays, deductibles, and premiums—may affect your financial well-being. Given that health care is already a significant expense, unexpected increases could lead to difficult choices about care or require reduced spending in other areas. It’s crucial to review how these changes will impact your budget and lifestyle.

3. Changes to Supplemental Benefits Pay close attention to changes in supplemental benefits. Many plans are altering or even reducing these important benefits. If you rely on certain extra benefits, losing these coverages could seriously impact your well-being.

4. Changes to Provider Networks Continuity of care with doctors you know and trust is crucially important. But as insurance companies adjust their plans you may find that your long-time physicians are no longer in-network, forcing you to find new providers. This can result in unnecessary stress and disruptions to your health management routines.

5.Drug Plan Changes Lastly, make sure that alterations to drug plans don’t leave you scrambling. With changes in premiums and coverage for specific medications, you need to verify whether your vitally important prescriptions are still included in your plan, and if the costs are going to increase.

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A Call to Action—Take Charge of Your Medicare Coverage. Recent Kaiser Family Foundation research revealed that nearly 70% of Medicare users did not compare plans during the last Annual Enrollment Period. This year, due to the potential for wide-ranging changes, it is vitally important to compare your current plan to your 2025 options before you renew your plan.

As we approach the beginning of the Annual Enrollment Period on October 15 th , the team at Healthpilot encourages you to take an active role in your health care decisions. We understand that Medicare can be complicated, and we’re here to help in two, powerful ways.

First, we’ve created a groundbreaking website that makes it simple to find plans in your area that fit your needs—doctors, prescriptions, budget, and more. We even assign a Plan Fit score to each of your options so you can easily see which plans are best for your unique situation. Plus, once you’re a Healthpilot member, we automatically check your plan every year to make sure it’s still your best option.

Secondly, while many of our customers prefer to compare plans and enroll entirely online, we didn’t forget about the human element. If you have questions, our licensed insurance agents are here to help. Better yet, because they’re not paid on commission, their only goal is to help you select the right plan.