If you are enrolled in a Medicare Part D plan (or Medicare Advantage plan) that is not being offered next year, your plan will notify you that it will not be continued into 2015.
If your planned is not offered in 2015, and you are not being moved or "crossed-walked" into another Medicare plan, you will not have 2015 prescription coverage unless you join another stand-alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plan (PDP) or a Medicare Advantage plan that offers prescription drug coverage (MA-PD).
Some examples of stand-alone Medicare Part D plan that will not be offered in 2015 are:
- The Cigna-Healthspring
Rx plan -- affecting 363,918 members
- The AARP
MedicareRx Enhanced plan will be terminated. Although the
Enhanced plans is not AARP’s most popular plan, 143,472 members will be
affected by this plan termination.
- The First
Health Part D Essentials & First Health Premier Plus plans
will be also be eliminated affecting 409,719 and 68,642 members
respectively. First Health will introduce a new First Health Part D
Premier Plus plan under a new contract for 2015.
- HealthMarkets Value plan (the Reader’s Digest
plan in 2013) will be terminated.
- The Medicare Rx Rewards Standard
plan and SmartD Rx Plus plans will also be terminated.
- The 2014
SilverScript Choice plans will be terminated for 2015 and the 2014 SilverScript
Basic plan will be renamed the SilverScript Choice plan in 2015.
There will be no new national carriers for 2015, however some of the current carriers will be offering new plan options for 2015, such as United American will introduce the2015 United American – Essential plan.
How will your current 2014 Medicare Part D plan change in 2015?
If you would like to see how your Medicare Part D plan is changing in 2015, you can use our 2015 PDP-Compare for a quick overview of next year’s Medicare Part D plan changes.
If your plan is not available in 2015, it will be marked as “This Plan not offered in 2015”.
At the time of publishing this Blog, we do not yet have the “crosswalk” data (showing plans that will automatically transfer plan membership to a new plan for 2015). However, we will continue to update the plan details in the 2015 PDP-Compare as more information becomes available.
We want to remind you that you can enroll in a 2015 Medicare Part D prescription drug plan or Medicare Advantage plan during the annual Open Enrollment Period starting October 15 and continuing through December 7, 2014.
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