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S 1479 112th Congress Senate

Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011

Official title: A bill to preserve Medicare beneficiary choice by restoring and expanding Medicare open enrollment and disenrollment opportunities.

Introduced: August 2, 2011 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug 2, 2011
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 Latest action August 2, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the allowance for disenrollment, between January 1 and March 15 of each year, only from an MedicareAdvantage plan to elect enrollment in the original Medicare fee-for-service program.

Restores the option under previous law to elect to change from a MedicareAdvantage to the original Medicare fee-for-service plan, or from the original Medicare fee-for-service to a MedicareAdvantage plan, once a year during the first three months.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1580 Identical bill Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1
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Wyden, Ron
Oregon · Oct 4, 2011
Toomey, Patrick
· Aug 2, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1479: Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1479/
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"S. 1479: Medicare Beneficiary Preservation of Choice Act of 2011." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-1479/.
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