{"id":15312,"date":"2020-02-26T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15312"},"modified":"2020-02-26T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:16:17","slug":"how-to-appeal-your-medicare-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15312","title":{"rendered":"How to appeal your Medicare surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 4.3 million Medicare beneficiaries that pay more than the standard amounts for Medicare Part B and Part D.\u00a0 Income related monthly adjustment amounts (IRMAA) is a surcharge based on your tax return from two years prior which may not accurately reflect your current financial situation.\u00a0 The process to prove that your current income is lower involves asking the agency to reconsider their assessment based on a \u201clife-changing\u201d event that qualify as reasons for reducing or eliminating the IRMAA.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/02\/25\/heres-how-to-appeal-higher-medicare-premiums.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8431\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56786036-\u00a9-Alexmillos-Dreamstime_com_-700x452.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>There are about 4.3 million Medicare beneficiaries that pay more than the standard amounts for Medicare Part B and Part<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312","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=15312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15313,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312\/revisions\/15313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}