{"id":8814,"date":"2017-12-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:35:11","slug":"the-beneficiary-enrollment-notification-and-eligibility-simplification-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8814","title":{"rendered":"The Beneficiary Enrollment Notification and Eligibility Simplification Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Congressional Research Service, 750,000 Medicare beneficiaries get socked with a Medicare Part B late-enrollment penalty in 2014. Confusion about the Medicare enrollment rules is the reason a bipartisan group of legislators are pushing a bill in Congress \u2013 the Beneficiary Enrollment Notification and Eligibility Simplification (BENES) act. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextavenue.org\/congress-prevent-medicare-enrollment-mistakes\/\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56546786-\u00a9-Alexander-Bakanov-Dreamstime_com_-700x445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8430\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56546786-\u00a9-Alexander-Bakanov-Dreamstime_com_-700x445-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56546786-\u00a9-Alexander-Bakanov-Dreamstime_com_-700x445-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_56546786-\u00a9-Alexander-Bakanov-Dreamstime_com_-700x445.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>According to the Congressional Research Service, 750,000 Medicare beneficiaries get socked with a Medicare Part B late-enrollment penalty in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814","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=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8815,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}