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Medicare Lagniappe: Help with drug costs

by | Dec 1, 2023

What’s Extra Help?

“Extra Help” is a Medicare program to help people with limited income and resources pay Medicare drug coverage (Part D) premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and other costs. What’s a premium, deductible, coinsurance, or copayment?

You also won’t have to pay a Part D late enrollment penalty while you get Extra Help. What’s the Part D penalty?

Some people qualify for Extra Help automatically, and other people have to apply.

 

Who gets Extra Help automatically?

You’ll get Extra Help automatically if you get:

  • Full Medicaid coverage
  • Help from your state paying your Part B premiums (from a Medicare Savings Program)
  • Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits from Social Security

You’ll get a letter about your Extra Help. It tells you things like how much you’ll pay, and your new Medicare drug plan, if you don’t have one already.

More information at medicare.gov