Dr. Oz to Newsmax: Use Open Enrollment, Don’t Throw Money Away

Dr. Mehmet Oz urged Medicare beneficiaries to use the final days of open enrollment, warning that failing to review coverage options could mean “throwing money away,” he told Newsmax in an interview as the Dec. 7 deadline neared.

Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said on “Wake Up America” that beneficiaries who do not select the plan that best matches their needs risk losing savings and important options for the coming year.

“If you don’t sign up during an open enrollment for the best program that meets your needs, you’re throwing money away,” Oz said. “You’re also throwing away some important options, and you don’t get to come back in and change it for another year.”

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