The two Senators, Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. announced their plans to discuss the issue with CMS administrators. The Senators have been hearing from some beneficiaries “who are not being charged for their Part D premiums, or are being charged the wrong premiums, after those beneficiaries have arranged for premiums to be taken out of their Social Security checks.”
A recent announcement by Medicare program officials “stating that 230,000 Medicare beneficiaries -- including more than 6,000 in Iowa and 1,700 in Montana -- have mistakenly received refunds of their premiums for Medicare Part D from the Social Security Administration. The government said it made a processing error and refunded the money by mistake.”
The amount of people affected by the accounting error seems astonishingly high for no one to have noticed. A few thousand people I could understand but several hundred thousand refunds without someone catching the mistake?
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