{"id":26371,"date":"2026-08-07T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26371"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:05:43","slug":"what-are-medicare-savings-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26371","title":{"rendered":"What are Medicare Savings Programs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Medicare Savings Program (MSP) is a state-run initiative designed to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries in covering certain healthcare costs. These programs help reduce or eliminate out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) and Part B (medical insurance), including premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance. Jordan Rosenfeld, writing for GOBanking Rates, outlines what are Medicare Savings Programs. Read Ms. Rosenfeld\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/other\/do-you-qualify-for-medicare-savings-programs-this-is-the-2026-income-cutoff\/ar-AA24nUPD?ocid=hpmsn&amp;cvid=6a74bd422a9249609a662f46800e86af&amp;ei=18\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/other\/do-you-qualify-for-medicare-savings-programs-this-is-the-2026-income-cutoff\/ar-AA24nUPD?ocid=hpmsn&amp;cvid=6a74bd422a9249609a662f46800e86af&amp;ei=18\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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>The Medicare Savings Program (MSP) is a state-run initiative designed to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries in covering certain healthcare costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[80,385,238,61,940],"class_list":["post-26371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-savings-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371","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=26371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26372,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371\/revisions\/26372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}