Turn to Tufts Health Plan for Medicare help
Do you have the right plan for retirement?
Retirement is a whole new chapter in your life — with new opportunities and new experiences, including choosing a new health plan. Like many people, you may be moving from your current health plan to Medicare.
You can choose any Medicare plan you want
When choosing a Medicare plan for the first time, it’s important to think about your budget, the doctor you want to see, how much care you need and if you need coverage outside of Massachusetts.
There are four basic choices
Original Medicare: offered by the government to cover some of your medical needs.
Medicare Supplement plan: can be added to Original Medicare to cover what Original Medicare does not cover.
Medicare Advantage plan: covers everything Original Medicare covers and more
Medicare Part D plan: covers prescription drugs only
If you already have a Medicare plan, make sure it’s right for you.
If you are already retired or have a Medicare plan, you can change your plan during the Annual Election Period, which is now through Dec. 7. If your health care needs have changed, or if you are paying too much for prescription or doctor co-pays, this is your opportunity to change your coverage for 2018.
Tufts Health Plan can answer your questions.
As a local plan in Watertown, Tufts Health Plan is available to answer any questions you have about choosing a Medicare plan or changing your current plan. To make sure you are in the plan that is right for you, give us a call at 877-259-6197 (TTY:711). Medicare specialists are available seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (From Feb. 15 through Sept. 30, specialists are available Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.)
Or go to www.StartWith Tufts.com to learn more about Medicare and download easy-to-use Medicare Planning Tools.
Tufts Health Plan is an HMO plan with a Medicare contract. Enrollment in Tufts Health Plan depends on contract renewal.
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