RE: Applying for Medicare Part B

[Guest guest]

Does the

Special Enrollment Period (described below from the Medicare web site) only

apply if a patient never took Medicare B and not if they had it for a short

period of time and dropped it as they have commercial insurance?

When a Special Enrollment Period Can Occur

If you didn’t take Medicare Part B when you were first

eligible because you or your spouse were working and had group health plan

coverage through your or your spouse’s employer or union, you can sign up

for Medicare Part B during a Special

Enrollment Period. You can sign up:

Anytime you are still

covered by the employer or union group health plan through your or your

spouse’s current or active

employment, or

During the 8 months

following the month the employer or union group health plan coverage ends, or when

the employment ends (whichever is first).

If you are disabled and working (or you have coverage from a

working family member), the Special Enrollment Period rules also apply

Daryl Battin, LICSW

Financial

Coordinator/Social Worker

Lahey Clinic --

KidneyTransplant

41 Mall Road

Burlington, MA 01805

PH: /FAX:

Applying for Medicare Part B

I am sure

this will seem like a silly question but in the last 7

years I have never once had to apply for just part B coverage. The

patient has A and evidently stopped paying B and it was cancelled . She

was recently transplanted and now she needs to get back B. Do I just

fill out the 2728 form or is there something else that needs completed?

Thanks goodness she does have a commercial insurance too. Thanks

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