Medicare Eligibility
This is the age when you become eligible for Medicare benefits.
What is 65?
The three ways to qualify for Medicare benefits.
What is Age, Disability and ESRD?
Insurance for the impovershed often managed by the state
What is Medicaid?
$185 per month
What is the 2025 Part B premium?
Covers inpatient procedures
What is Medicare part A?
January, February and March.
What is General Enrollment Period?
Medicare based on dialysis or kidney transplant.
What is ESRD?
A cost sharing program the helps pay you Medicare premiums
What is Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB)?
10% per year
Covers most outpatient procedures
What is Medicare part B?
Your 65th birthday, three months before and three months after
When is the initial enrollment period?
If A-HI is Aged Health Insurance and D-HI is Disabled Heath Insurance, this is the acronym used for health insurance based on End Stage Renal Disease.
What is R-HI?
The Medicare ID is also know by this abbreviation.
What is Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI)?
$518
What is the uninsured Medicare part A premium? <30 credits
The government body that manages Medicare.
What is Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)?
Any time after the IEP and up to 8 months after GHP terminates.
When is Special Enrollment Period (SEP)?
A branch of medicine that specializes in kidneys
What is nephrology?
What is Medicare part D Extra Help?
$555
What is the quarterly cost of Medicare part B?
A work-sponsored health insurance that covers at least 100 employees.
What is a Large Group Health Plan (LGHP)?
The last day of the third month after billing.
What is the grace period?
The only evidence needed to prove kidney disease
What is CMS-2728?
Not to be confused with this 2017 category 5 hurricane, it increases your Medicare premium based on your income.
What is income-related monthly adjustment amount (IRMAA)?
$257
What is the Medicare part B deductible?
Medicare part B covers at this percentage.
What is 80%?