Medicare's Compare for 2011 Medicare Advantage Plans and stand-alone drug plans is up and running today, October 7, thus beating their advertised deadline of October 8.
Beneficiaries should go ahead and start studying what is available for them now, although actual changes to their plans can't be made until beginning November 15. The program appears significantly improved from the previous versions, and more user-friendly.
Also available is a new facility which allows beneficiaries to download their "My Medicare" information to a file on their home computer. Previously the only way to "save" it was to print it out. When you have signed into your "My Medicare" account, look for the Blue Button "Download My Data" logo to download your informtion. You get choices of what types of information you want to download (eg, claims data, drug data, etc.) And there is an important warning there about downloading only to a personal, not a public (eg library), computer.
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