Medicare Part B is the part that covers medical and specialist services. And in order to be able to enroll in them there are certain periods, especially for people entering this program. The first period to keep in mind is the Initial Enrollment Periodwhich has a time window of seven months which is the month of his birthday, three months before and three months after.

When a person needs to manually enroll in Medicare, it means that you need to contact Social Security to enroll. It is best to do this during the first three months to make this process faster and start your coverage on the first of the month of your birthday.

If the person makes a registration during the birthday monthIf you enroll in Medicare, this Medicare coverage becomes effective the first of the following month. But keep in mind, if you make this enrollment, you will not be covered for the following month. the following month of the month of his birthday, this coverage will be delayed. two months. If this inscription is made by two months later of the month of your birthday, this coverage will be delayed three monthsIf you do the inscription, the same applies to three months later.

The good thing for next year 2023 is the change regarding this enrollment period. For those people who register during the last three months will be able to start using the benefit the following monthThe new coverage will be effective the following month, so there will no longer be a delay in coverage.

This is one of the changes we will see with the Part B enrollment period in 2023.

On the other hand, if you miss this initial enrollment period, the seven-month period has passed and you did not enroll in Medicaid Part B, you must enroll in Medicaid Part B during the Medicare Open Periodwhich is january 1 to march 31The coverage of Part B commenced on July 1 of that year.

But there is also a Special Period for those who can prove that they were misinformed by their employer and could not enroll on time. They can prove this at Social Security offices and make a Part B enrollment without any problem.

It is important to be aware of these enrollment periods and enroll on time to avoid penalties or delays in your coverage.

Regarding the Part B premium, the cost for next year 2023 has not yet been stipulated, but we remain positive that it is going to be lower than what it costs this year. It is assumed that now for 2023 this monthly premium will go down a little bit, but Medicare has not yet published what that premium is going to be, but as soon as we have this information we are going to communicate it to you.

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