{"id":14780,"date":"2019-12-18T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14780"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:02:59","slug":"is-it-worth-the-effort-to-lower-your-medicare-irmaa-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14780","title":{"rendered":"Is it worth the effort to lower your Medicare IRMAA premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Majority of people do not know that their Medicare premiums are based on their income. The formula Medicare uses is your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) from your tax return to determine your Medicare Premium surcharges.\u00a0 So being proactive in your tax planning can help decrease your premiums for Medicare in the future.\u00a0 What does Medicare consider a higher earner when it comes to Medicare surcharge premiums, click on link to read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidrae\/2019\/12\/17\/medicare-premiums-by-new-years\/#1585ce547fe0\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>Majority of people do not know that their Medicare premiums are based on their income. The formula Medicare uses is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780","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=14780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14781,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions\/14781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}