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Fri Dec 2, 2022, 09:19 PM Dec 2022

Medicare fees are lower for 2023

I got the email inviting me to log into my Social Security account to view the 2023 benefits.

Of course it did not recognize me, so I tried to use a new password and got an email that... that email is not associated with any account.. and finally I did what I never do, clicked on the link from the email and had to wait for security code to be emailed.

Anyhoo, monthly Medicare will be $164.90 instead of $170.10.

I probably should call them, anyway to assure that the account is not compromised. As it happened, several days ago I did get an email notifying me that my account was suspended for "suspicious" activity. I trashed it.

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Medicare fees are lower for 2023 (Original Post) question everything Dec 2022 OP
Thanks Brandon! Diamond_Dog Dec 2022 #1
I logged into my account. $164.90 is correct according to the SSA. n/t Tess49 Dec 2022 #2
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Yep. This information has been out there for several months now. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2022 #4
It was $148.50 in 2021 and $164.90 in 2023 so a 11.0% increase over 2 years progree Dec 2022 #5

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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. Yep. This information has been out there for several months now.
Sat Dec 3, 2022, 05:49 PM
Dec 2022

The reason Medicare is going down is that they are not going to pay for some very sketchy Alzheimer's drug that a year or so ago thought they would pay for. It's both ineffective and hideously expensive, so that's the right decision.

progree

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5. It was $148.50 in 2021 and $164.90 in 2023 so a 11.0% increase over 2 years
Wed Dec 14, 2022, 02:16 AM
Dec 2022

(5.4% average annual increase). Compare to: the CPI increased 14.4% in the past 2 years (November 2022 over November 2020)

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/current-and-historical-medicare-part-b-premiums-2388483

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