{"id":397426,"date":"2025-09-19T21:13:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/?p=397426"},"modified":"2025-12-13T00:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:11:25","slug":"sign-up-for-medicare-open-enrollment-presentations-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/blog\/2025\/09\/19\/sign-up-for-medicare-open-enrollment-presentations-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Help With Medicare Open Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Open Enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. The Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) \u2013 part of the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging, a division of the Human Services Agency \u2013 will again be providing countywide resources and help.<\/p>\n<p>From October 15 to December 5, HICAP counselors will host 36 One-Stop events at 14 different sites around the county to provide individual counseling sessions. People interested in a one-on-one appointment are urged to sign up as soon as possible, as they will fill up quickly. The online form can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vcaaa.venturacounty.gov\/our-services\/medicare-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/vcaaa.venturacounty.gov\/our-services\/medicare-help\/\">VCAAA.VenturaCounty.gov\/HICAP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sites for these various events include Ventura (the VCAAA office), Camarillo (Camarillo Health Care District, Pleasant Valley Senior Center), Fillmore (Active Adult Center), Moorpark (Active Adult Center), Ojai (HELP of Ojai), Oxnard (Colonia Senior Center, Palm Vista Senior Center, South Oxnard Senior Center, Wilson Senior Center), Port Hueneme (Orvene S. Carpenter Community Center), Santa Paula (Senior Center), Simi Valley (Senior Center) and Thousand Oaks (CRPD Conejo Creek Community Building, Goebel Adult Community Center).<\/p>\n<p>Please see the following PDFs or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/vcaaa.venturacounty.gov\/our-services\/medicare-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/vcaaa.venturacounty.gov\/our-services\/medicare-help\/\">VCAAA.VenturaCounty.gov\/HICAP<\/a>\u00a0for specific dates, times and locations.<\/p>\n<p>Both the presentations and the individual appointments are free. For more information, call the VCAAA at 805-477-7300.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/09\/OpenEnrollment_2026_Presentations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Enrollment Presentations flyer (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/09\/OpenEnrollment_2026_OneStops.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenEnrollment One-Stops flyer (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/09\/OpenEnrollment_2026_GeneralInfo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenEnrollment General Info flyer (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Open Enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. The Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP) \u2013 part of the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging, a division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:21:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}