Medicare Open Enrollment: What You Need to Know

Registration is required.

With Medicare Open Enrollment just around the corner, you’re invited to attend a free, unbiased presentation about Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage plans, including who is eligible and what options are available. We also cover what you can do during open enrollment, how you can choose and change plans, what Medigaps are and how they work, what the qualifications are for programs to help you pay for Medicare, and what Medicare fraud looks like so you can protect your benefits. In order to change your Medicare Advantage or Medicare Part D plan for 2026, you must make changes during open enrollment: October 15–December 7, 2025. 

Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) provide free, unbiased, and confidential counseling services and are part of the Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner. SHIBA is a statewide network of trained volunteers who advocate for and assist consumers with Medicare and is sponsored locally by Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington (ALTCEW).