{"id":17104,"date":"2020-11-05T08:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17104"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:45:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:45:05","slug":"high-income-surcharges-apply-regardless-of-how-clients-receive-medicare-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17104","title":{"rendered":"High-income surcharges apply regardless of how clients receive Medicare coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most retirees pay the standard Medicare Part B premium, but five percent of Medicare beneficiaries pay Income-Related Monthly Adjustment or IRMAA.\u00a0 Medicare beneficiaries with an annual modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) of more than $87,000 and married couples with a joint MAGI over $174,000, pay an additional surcharge. In MaryBeth Franklin\u2019s column for Investment News, she explains high-income surcharges apply regardless of how Medicare beneficiaries receive their Medicare coverage.\u00a0 Read Ms. Franklin\u2019s column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmentnews.com\/no-escaping-irmaa-switching-medicare-advantage-198973?NLID=IN-Daily-Pulse&amp;NL_issueDate=2020114&amp;utm_source=IN-Daily-Pulse-2020114&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=investmentnews&amp;utm_visit=775402\">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>Most retirees pay the standard Medicare Part B premium, but five percent of Medicare beneficiaries pay Income-Related Monthly Adjustment or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104","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=17104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17105,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions\/17105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}