Help!! Doctors Aren’t Accepting My Medicare Advantage PPO

UNITED STATES—Toni, when I turned 65 in 2024, I enrolled into a Medicare Supplement Plan G, which increased its premium. I made a mistake by changing to a Medicare Advantage PPO during last year’s Medicare Open Enrollment time. Friends said that a PPO plan was like being enrolled in a Medicare Supplement with a prescription drug plan. I should not have listened to them and now I want out! Most specialists and MRI facilities are out of network, and the PPO plan is costing me a fortune. I’ve been advised by my primary care office manager to return to Traditional Medicare. Is Traditional Medicare different than Original Medicare? Please advise me how I can just return to Medicare. Thanks, Sybil from Orlando, FL. Hi Sybil: You will be happy to know that “Original Medicare” and “Traditional Medicare” are the same thing, but the medical profession refers to Medicare as “Traditional” Medicare. Medicare’s Open Enrollment Period (OEP) from Oct. 15 to Dec.

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