{"id":24116,"date":"2025-03-12T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24116"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:28:21","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-medicare-part-b-late-enrollment-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24116","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About The Medicare Part B Late Enrollment Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Diane Omdahl for Forbes o March 11, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part B, medical insurance, is a very important piece of Medicare. It helps cover outpatient services and preventive care. Despite its importance, it\u2019s optional coverage because it has a monthly premium, $185 in 2025. And because it\u2019s optional, there are many who have not enrolled. If anyone goes without Part B when they should have enrolled, they face a late enrollment penalty. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianeomdahl\/2025\/03\/11\/what-to-know-about-the-part-b-late-enrollment-penalty\/\">Read here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianeomdahl\/2025\/03\/11\/what-to-know-about-the-part-b-late-enrollment-penalty\/\"> <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Omdahl for Forbes o March 11, 2025 Part B, medical insurance, is a very important piece of Medicare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,200,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24116","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24117,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24116\/revisions\/24117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}