Avoid Scams during Medicare’s Open Enrollment

Avoid Scams during Medicare’s Open Enrollment

Anne Fredrickson, the project manager for Ohio SMP, provides a list of the kind of marketing tactics insurance agents are allowed to do during Medicare’s open enrollment period.

Medicare open enrollment is October 15 through December 7, annually. During this time, beneficiaries choose their Medicare coverage for the next year.

It’s also a time when Medicare marketing scams occur! In order to know if you’ve been scammed or have encountered predatory sales practices, here is some helpful information about what insurance agents selling Medicare products can and cannot do.