Medicare Savings Programs, a series of little-known programs, help Medicare beneficiaries in the low- and middle-income brackets pay premiums, such as your Part B premium, and other costs. They are joint federal-state programs, so they have different guidelines by state. The savings could be ...
10 The Medicare Savings Program includes the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary program (QMB), Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary program (SLMB), and Qualifying Individual program (QI). These programs help Medicare beneficiaries of modest means pay all or some of Medicare’s cost-sharing amounts ...