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Originally Posted by Fresia
I am sorry to hear you were given this advice. I would contact Medicare back. I thought you could reelect to get Medicare B back during the open enrollment period, I think it is in October or November; however, you may have to pay a higher premium for Part B. If I have this wrong, I apologize but a friend did something similar and was able to get it back.; this was a few years ago, perhaps the policy has changed. The other option perhaps then is to find an individual policy or medicare supplement. I wish you well in trying to find something.
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Thanks Fresia. I looked into this by calling Medicare. Medicare said that if there's no delay and if they are not at all backed up, July 2015 would be the soonest I could get re-enrolled.
Their reason why is that while open enrollment begins in January, anyone who CANCELS has an additional 6 month waiting period before coverage kicks in.
They do NOT care if you cancelled due to receiving inaccurate information or incomplete information as I did.