{"id":16456,"date":"2020-07-16T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:46:53","slug":"the-beneficiary-enrollment-notificaiton-and-eligibilty-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16456","title":{"rendered":"The Beneficiary Enrollment Notificaiton and Eligibilty Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 50 years, legislation was approved by the House committee that would make changes to the complex rules for enrolling Medicare Part B.\u00a0 Seniors who don\u2019t enroll in Part B when they first become eligible for Medicare pay a permanent recurring late enrollment penalties and must wait until January to sign up for coverage that begins July 1, unless they qualify for an exception. \u00a0Known as the \u201cBENES\u201d Act, Beneficiary Enrollment Notification and Eligibility Simplification Act, if it becomes law, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) would be required to notify people before they turn 63, 64 and 65 that they may be eligible for Medicare at age 65. Read article for more details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/practicemanagement\/reimbursement\/87586\">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><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>For the first time in 50 years, legislation was approved by the House committee that would make changes to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","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=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16457,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions\/16457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}