No. After
disenrollment, paying your past unpaid premiums will not get you automatically reinstated back into your Medicare drug plan.
Instead, you will need a valid enrollment period to rejoin a Medicare Part D plan – such as a
Special Enrollment Period (SEP) or the
annual Open Enrollment Period (AEP) that begins October 15.
In the Medicare manuals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notes that:
"If the individual is involuntarily disenrolled [from their Medicare Part D plan] for failure to pay premiums, in order to re-enroll in
that plan, or to enroll in another, the individual must request enrollment during a valid period.
Payment of past due premiums after the disenrollment date does not create an opportunity for
reinstatement into the plan from which the individual was disenrolled for failure to pay premiums."
Sources include:
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Manual - Chapter 3 - Eligibility, Enrollment and Disenrollment - Updated: August 19, 2011 (Revised: November 16, 2011, August 7, 2012, August 30, 2013, August 30, 2014, July 6, 2015, September 1, 2015, September 14, 2015, December 30, 2015, May 27, 2016, August 25, 2016 & June 15, 2017, July 31, 2018 & August 12, 2020)