Healthcare & Medicine

Medicare enrollment is now open. What coverage questions do you have?

Medicare enrollment is now open in Florida.
Medicare enrollment is now open in Florida.

Medicare enrollment is now open in Florida and it’s time to pick your coverage plan for 2024.

The public insurance is for people 65 and older, and has four parts:

Part A - Hospital insurance

Part B - Medicare insurance

Part C -Medicare Advantage plans

Part D - Drug coverage

There are two main ways to get coverage, either original Medicare or Medicare Advantage. And unlike private insurances, Medicare lets you have a different plan from your spouse and family, based on your needs.

The open enrollment period ends Dec. 7. And whether it’s your first time choosing a Medicare plan or you’re considering changing your existing plan, you might have questions about the different coverage options.

Maybe you want to know how Medicare differs from Medicaid. Perhaps you have questions about the differences between original Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans. Maybe you’re worried about keeping your doctor or aren’t sure what documents you need to apply for Medicare.

No matter the question, we want to help.

Fill out the form below to let us know what questions you have about Medicare and the enrollment process. Can’t see the form embedded below? Click here.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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