Original Medicare
Part A handles hospital stays and Part B handles doctors and outpatient care. Neither puts a ceiling on your yearly costs, so most people pair them with something else. See how the parts fit together in Wichita.
Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas
Medicare Help in Wichita, Kansas
Your 65th birthday might be a few months off. You might already carry a Medicare plan and suspect it no longer fits. Either way, you get a person to talk it over with. We are a licensed, independent Kansas agency working with people across Wichita and Sedgwick County, and our help is free to you because the carrier pays us.
- You talk with a licensed agent
- Several carriers, compared
- Free help, no pressure
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A licensed agent will call you back within one business day. If it is after hours, the next business morning. No obligation.
Or call now: (316) 374-2353We return requests the same or next business day. Send one tonight and expect a call the following business day.
Licensed in Kansas
An independent insurance agent, not a carrier employee
More than one carrier
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, UnitedHealthcare, Humana and others
Free to you
The carrier pays the agent, never the client
Phone or video
Callbacks the same or next business day
Wichita Senior Insurance is an independent insurance agency owned privately. No federal agency, Medicare included, runs or endorses it.
Medicare tools
Find your Medicare timeline
Enter a birth month and year and the calculator returns the seven months of your Initial Enrollment Period. Signing up for Part B inside them keeps a late penalty off your premium. It asks for no contact details. Other windows exist too, and the Wichita enrollment help page walks through each of them.
Enrollment window finder
Type in two numbers and read off your seven months. It runs on this page and stores nothing.
Part B penalty calculator
Past 65 with no Part B yet? The late enrollment penalty calculator works out what waiting adds to each monthly premium.
A plan review by phone
We check your doctors, drugs and budget against the plans we can offer. Call (316) 374-2353.
Free tool
When Can I Enroll In Medicare?
Enter your birth month and year. See your Initial Enrollment Period window and avoid lifetime late-enrollment penalties.
Your Initial Enrollment Period
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A licensed agent will call you back within one business day. If it is after hours, the next business morning. No obligation.
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Which one sounds like you?
Choose the line closest to your own week. Each one leads to a page written for that exact spot.
My 65th birthday is coming up
Open the Turning 65 guideI have Medicare and want the big picture
Read the Wichita plans overviewI am leaving a job and its health plan
See what retiring off a work plan opensI want a second look at my current plan
Learn how a plan review goesI want my funeral costs covered
Read about final expense policiesI am sorting this out for a parent
Open the Wichita resources directoryYour agent
Meet the licensed agents behind Wichita Senior Insurance
Our agents hold Kansas insurance licenses and work independently, so no single company signs our checks. We lay the plans from the carriers we are appointed with side by side and tells you plainly what each one does with your doctors and your prescriptions.
There is no call center between you and us. The person who picks up your first call is the one who looks over your plan, and the one you reach again when next fall's Annual Notice of Change lands in your mailbox. You set the pace, and nobody pushes you to sign.
On the phoneHow most Wichita clients start.
On a video callUseful when you want to look at a plan document together.
With family listening inA son or daughter in another city can join the same call.
By callback requestLeave your number tonight and hear back the same or next business day.
Coverage
Medicare, explained simply
Four pieces to understand first. Plan names can wait.
Medicare Supplement
A Medigap policy pays much of what Original Medicare leaves behind, and any doctor who takes Medicare takes it. Most people here compare Plan G with Plan N: Medicare Supplement plans in Wichita, KS.
Medicare Advantage
A private plan takes the place of Original Medicare and uses a provider network, often with drug coverage and extras built in. Whether your hospital is in that network decides a lot. Read Medicare Advantage in Wichita, KS.
The prescription side
In 2026, what you pay out of pocket for covered drugs stops at $2,100 for the year, whatever plan you pick. Formularies and pharmacy pricing still differ by plan: Part D drug plans for Wichita.
Need something beyond Medicare itself? Read about final expense insurance in Wichita, the Kansas programs that help pay Medicare costs, or the seven Medicare mistakes worth avoiding.
The process
How working with us goes
You learn what each option covers and what it costs before you decide anything. The About page says more about how we work and how we are paid.
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Start with where you are
Say what coverage you carry today, which doctors you see, what is in your medicine cabinet, and whether a paycheck still comes with a health plan. Rough answers are fine. No paperwork has to be ready.
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Line the options up against your life
We check your doctors and hospital first, your prescriptions second, and your budget third. Then come the habits that change the answer, such as winters in Arizona or a spouse who needs something else. Plan names come last.
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Choose, or keep what you have
You hear what each path would cost and cover, and then the decision is yours. Plenty of reviews end with the plan you already hold, and that outcome costs you nothing either.
Service area
The Wichita hospitals your plan choice touches
Most Medicare questions here end up at one of these four. Before you enroll in any plan, look up your own doctors and hospital in that plan's provider directory.
Wesley Medical Center
Wichita's HCA-owned hospital, north of downtown. Wesley publishes its own list of insurance agreements, which helps, but the plan directory for your exact plan still settles the question.
Source: wesleymc.com, Insurance InformationAscension Via Christi
One name covers three Wichita hospitals: downtown's St. Francis, St. Joseph on the east side, and St. Teresa out west. One brand does not mean one contract, so check the campus you would use.
Source: healthcare.ascension.org/via-christiKansas Medical Center, Andover
Andover's own hospital, owned by its physicians and sitting in Butler County. For Andover and east-side households it is often the closest bed, which is a reason to look it up by name in any plan you weigh.
Source: ksmedcenter.comRobert J. Dole VA Medical Center
The VA hospital for veterans in Wichita. VA care and Medicare run on separate rules, so a veteran choosing a Medicare plan should decide how the two will work side by side.
Source: va.gov/wichita-health-careWe take calls from all over Sedgwick County and the towns around Wichita, from Derby and Haysville in the south to Valley Center and Park City in the north, plus Andover just across the Butler County line.
- Wichita
- Derby
- Haysville
- Park City
- Bel Aire
- Valley Center
- Maize
- Goddard
- Andover
For SHICK counseling, Social Security, KanCare and other local contacts, open the Wichita senior resources directory. Annual Enrollment dates are on the Sedgwick County open enrollment page, and a month-by-month list sits on the turning 65 checklist. You can also reach us through the contact page.
What people ask before they call
Something else on your mind? Reach us at (316) 374-2353.
My birthday is next spring. When does Medicare start asking things of me?
Your first window is seven months long. Picture your birthday month in the middle, with three months on each side of it. People already drawing Social Security get Part A and Part B started for them; everyone else signs up with Social Security, online or by phone.
Is it worth looking at a plan I already have?
A yearly check is plenty for most people. Each fall the carriers can change which drugs they cover and which doctors and hospitals are in network for January. If none of that touches you, the right move is to leave the plan alone.
Who pays the agent?
The insurance company does, when someone enrolls in a plan. You pay nothing for the conversation, and that stays true whether you sign up through us, keep your current coverage, or handle the paperwork on your own.
Is Wichita Senior Insurance part of the government?
No. It is a private, independent insurance agency with no government connection or endorsement. Signing up for Part A and Part B happens through Social Security, not through an agent. For a list of every plan sold in Sedgwick County, use Medicare.gov or call 1-800-MEDICARE.
Have a Medicare question in Wichita?
Call us now, or leave your number and we will call you back.
Call (316) 374-2353 Or request a callback