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If our Plan is no longer contracting with Medicare or leaves your service area
If we leave the Medicare program or no longer offer prescription drug coverage in the area where you live, we will notify you in writing. If this happens, your membership in our Plan will end, and you will have to enroll in another Medicare Prescription Drug Plan to continue your prescription drug coverage. All of the benefits and rules described in this Benefit Guide will continue until your membership ends. This means that you must continue to get your prescription drugs through our preferred UPREHS Depot Drug Mail Order Pharmacy and UPREHS Depot Drug Walk-In Pharmacies until your membership ends.
Your choices include joining another Medicare Prescription Drug Plan or a Medicare Advantage Plan with prescription drug coverage if these plans are available in your area and are accepting new members. Once we have notified you in writing that we are leaving the Medicare program or the area where you live, you may enroll in another plan. See When can you disenroll or switch Prescription Drug Plans? above for specific information on special enrollment periods.
Our Plan has a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the government agency that runs Medicare. This contract may be renewed each year. However, our Plan or CMS can decide to end the contract at any time. You will generally be notified 90 days in advance if this situation occurs. However, your advance notice may be as little as 30 days or even fewer days if CMS must end our contract in the middle of the year.
Please read Section 7 of the Benefits Guide for a full explanation of Disenrollment and Contract Termination
Last Updated 04/16/2008 |
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