{"id":16541,"date":"2020-07-29T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16541"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:16:13","slug":"will-medicare-part-b-premiums-be-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16541","title":{"rendered":"Will Medicare Part B premiums be frozen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the proposed Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act relief bill, there is a provision that would keep 2020 premiums for Part B in place for next year instead of adjusting them upward. However, according to a Senate Finance Committee summary, beneficiaries would pay an average three dollars extra monthly until the shortfall caused by the premium freeze is recouped. The idea is to protect Medicare\u2019s 62.5 million beneficiaries from a spike in Part B premium. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/28\/gops-proposed-heals-act-would-freeze-medicare-part-b-premium-for-2021.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7797\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/US-Senate-Logo-700x525.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>In the proposed Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act relief bill, there is a provision that would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16541","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=16541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16542,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16541\/revisions\/16542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}