{"id":11746,"date":"2018-10-15T09:14:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11746"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:14:01","slug":"medicare-part-b-premiums-are-heading-higher-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11746","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Part B premiums are heading higher next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 70 percent of Social Security recipients have their Medicare Part B premiums automatically deducted from their Social Security check every month. According to Medicare, those deductions are going to increase in 2019 from $134 to $135.50; however, the increase could be bigger for Americans who have protected from past premium increases by Social Security\u2019s hold harmless provision, a rule that prevents premiums from increasing by more than recipients\u2019 Social Security checks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2018\/10\/14\/medicare-could-cost-you-more-than-you-think-in-201.aspx\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8433\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 70 percent of Social Security recipients have their Medicare Part B premiums automatically deducted from their Social Security check<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11747,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746\/revisions\/11747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}