When Changing Your Address Leads to Losing Your Medicare Coverage

"...Using a post office box ...she tried to put a hold on it. When that didn’t work, she got a post office box near her home and filled out a change-of-address form online.

That change of address seems to have caused a cascading series of problems...Let’s start with the Postal Service. When Ms. Antoine began traveling to and from Texas, she put those holds on her mail. Her post office should have hung on to it while she was away.

But mail, including prescription drugs, kept coming to her house. Local postal workers told her that using holds in this way was ineffective"   
Source: www.nytimes.com

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