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Subject:  MSURA e-Notices 11/25/09
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The MSU Retirees Association wants your input!  If you have not completed the fall survey, please do so.  You will find it in the fall newsletter, and there is a link to the online version of the survey in the upper-left corner of the MSURA home page:
 
https://www.msu.edu/~msura/
 
 
A special letter from the MSU Benefits office about Medicare Part D options:
 
Open enrollment for the 2010 plan year for Medicare Part D plans runs from Nov. 15, 2009 through Dec. 31, 2009.  Medicare Part D plans offer outpatient prescription drug coverage that may be helpful to populations that lack other forms of prescription drug coverage with equal or better benefits.  MSU has compared Medicare Part D coverage to the current Caremark Prescription Drug Plan offered by MSU and has determined that the MSU Caremark Plan offers more comprehensive coverage than Medicare Part D for most MSU people.  For this reason Michigan State University strongly urges you (and any of your dependents enrolled in the MSU Caremark Plan) NOT to enroll in the Medicare Part D plan for 2010.  You do not have to do anything in order to retain your current prescription drug coverage in the MSU Caremark Plan.
 
More here:  http://www.hr.msu.edu/benefits/benefits_docs/Medicare_Part_D.pdf
 
Please check the Retiree section on the Human Resources web site for updates of interest:
 
http://www.hr.msu.edu/retirees.htm
 
 
Happy Thanksgiving!
 
 
(en09002)