If you choose Original Medicare, or if this is the only plan available to you, you don't have to do anything in order to start coverage on January 1, 2001. Medicare will switch you automatically. Medicare managed care plan. Once you have chosen the managed care plan you want, ask the plan for enrollment forms, complete these, and give them to the plan. You need to decide when to change plans.
Some plans have limited enrolment periods.
Find out the dates you can enroll. Remember, enrollment in your current Medicare managed care plans ends December 31, 2000. In most cases it is best to apply early, before your current Medicare managed care plan runs out, so that your Medigap coverage can begin on January 1, 2001. Checklist Read the letter from your present Medicare managed care plan carefully. Make sure it is dated and includes your name.