{"id":5641,"date":"2017-01-20T04:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2017-01-19T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T21:34:35","slug":"what-to-do-if-youre-wrongfully-billed-for-medicare-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"What to do if you\u2019re wrongfully billed for Medicare costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">(Source \u2013 www.consumerfinance.gov)\u00a0blog<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re among the 7 million Americans enrolled in the <a class=\"icon-link icon-link__external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/your-medicare-costs\/help-paying-costs\/medicare-savings-program\/medicare-savings-programs.html#collapse-2614\"><span class=\"icon-link_text\">Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Program<\/span> <\/a>, doctors, suppliers, and other providers aren\u2019t allowed to bill you for Medicare costs when you receive covered medical services, equipment, and supplies. Your Medicare premiums, as well as costs like deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments, are all covered by Medicaid.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/about-us\/blog\/what-do-if-youre-wrongfully-billed-medicare-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading here&#8230;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source \u2013 www.consumerfinance.gov)\u00a0blog If you\u2019re among the 7 million Americans enrolled in the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Program , doctors,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","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=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5642,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions\/5642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}