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Midnight tonight is the deadline for Medicare beneficiaries to enroll this year in a prescription drug plan under the Medicare Part D benefit. After that, you must wait until next year and pay a late fee. United, Humana, WellCare and other drug-plan sponsors are taking calls until midnight. Mailed applications will be accepted if they are postmarked before midnight.
Internet
• www.medicare.gov
• www.CARxE.org
• www.MyMedicareMatters.org
• www.medicaretoday.org
Phone
•Medicare: 1-800-Medicare (1-800-633-4227)
•Coalition to Advance Prescription Drug Education: 1-866-394-7700, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
(Note: West Florida Agency on Aging’s Elder Helpline, 1-800-963-5337, says it cannot guarantee help to those who must enroll by midnight. It suggests calling 1-800-Medicare.)
Individual help:
HILLSBOROUGH:
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
(Those there at 2 p.m. will be able to stay.)
University-Area Health Center
13601 N. 22nd St.
Tampa FL 33613
(813) 307-8015
Sponsor: Elder Care Advocacy of Florida
PINELLAS:
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Kmart
7850 113th St.
Seminole FL 33772
(727) 391-0223
Sponsor: My Medicare Matters
(Note: An advertised event at Moffitt Cancer Center is overbooked; try another one. )
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