Open enrollment for Medicare is in full swing

Medicare’s open enrollment period started Sunday, meaning people who use the government-sponsored health insurance and prescription drug plans can make changes to their coverage for 2010. Open enrollment lasts through the end of the year.

Medicare is health insurance available to anyone older than 65, people with certain disabilities and anyone with kidney failure.

Everyone with Medicare coverage should have received a handbook called “Medicare and You” in the mail. The handbook describes all the available health insurance and prescription drug plans for our region.

Anyone who is enrolled in a plan that is not being renewed will have an extra month, until Jan. 31, to make a decision on a new plan. It’s thought that 9 percent of Medicare recipients in Missouri are affected by the changes.

In the St. Louis area, there are about 3,500 people whose medical or drug plans are being dropped. The discontinued plans are managed by Coventry Health Care, WellCare Health Plans, Cigna, Wellpoint and XLHealth Corp. Anyone whose plan has been discontinued should have received extra information by mail about changing their coverage.

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