Some of you may come across clients who were enrolled in Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) through the Health Insurance Marketplace, and delayed enrolling in Part B when they became Medicare-eligible, because they did not know they needed to take Medicare or mistakenly thought they would be able to keep their Marketplace subsidy and pay less for coverage.

 

Time-limited (until late September 2017) equitable relief is available to Medicare beneficiaries who delayed enrolling in Part B in order to keep their QHPs. This relief enables these individuals to get immediate or retroactive Part B without a late enrollment penalty.

 

The Medicare Rights Center has developed a fact sheet and case study for us that outlines who qualifies for this relief, and how you can help clients in this situation.

Fact sheet: https://www.ncoa.org/resources/equitable-relief-late-enrollment-part-b/
Case study: https://www.ncoa.org/resources/equitable-relief-case-study/

 

See also the guidance from Social Security at: https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/reference.nsf/links/03012017070808AM

 

Brandy Bauer

Communications Manager, Economic Security

Office: 571-527-3911

xxxxxx@ncoa.org

 

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