Your Medicare Card (2024)

FAQs

How do I get answers to Medicare? ›

Live chat with us, and find local organizations that can help answer your Medicare questions. You can also: Call us at 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). Help from Medicare is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except some federal holidays.

Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in charge of the Medicare program, Social Security processes your application for Original Medicare (Part A and Part B). We provide general information about the Medicare program and can help you get a replacement Medicare card.

contact your plan directly to learn about your 2024 costs. Do you know what isn't new this year? Your Medicare card. Medicare beneficiaries are not receiving new cards this year, but scammers may try to convince you otherwise.

But this is almost always a scam. Spot the scam: The caller claims you're owed money from Medicare but needs your bank account number and personal identification to send you the funds. Giving a scammer this information could make you the victim of identity theft.

AARP's Medicare Question and Answer Tool works as an online planning resource, designed to assist those who are eligible for Medicare benefits as well as those who are unsure.

For general Social Security inquiries, call us toll-free at 1-800-772-1213 or 1-800-325-0778 (TTY) between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. If you have a problem or question, try our toll-free telephone number first.

Part A late enrollment penalty

If you have to buy Part A, and you don't buy it when you're first eligible for Medicare, your monthly premium may go up 10%. You'll have to pay the penalty for twice the number of years you didn't sign up.

Have you heard about the Social Security $16,728 yearly bonus? There's really no “bonus” that retirees can collect. The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a specific formula based on your lifetime earnings to determine your benefit amount.

The new Medicare cards will not contain your Social Security number. This is the only difference between the old cards and the new cards. The MBI numbers on the new Medicare cards are unique and randomly assigned to each individual.

Are Medicare cards being replaced? ›

You will not be getting an updated Medicare card this year, but scammers may try to convince you otherwise. For example, scammers may falsely tell you that Medicare is again issuing new cards— perhaps plastic ones, metal ones, chipped cards, or black and white COVID-19 cards?

The hospital insurance trust fund will be completely gone by 2028, which means the government has five years to change the equation. Read the Medicare trustees report. An ever-so-slightly more optimistic view from the Congressional Budget Office is that the hospital insurance trust fund will be depleted by 2030.

Earning rewards is easy! Call your doctor to schedule the preventive screening, exam, or vaccination. Go to your appointment and complete the preventive screening, exam, or vaccination. Your doctor will submit a claim to us showing you completed the preventive screening, exam, or vaccination.

This is a scam. Medicare will NOT call you, does not need you to verify your number (they already have it), and is NOT sending out new cards to beneficiaries. This is a growing scam and we're receiving a rising number of reports of beneficiaries being inundated with calls.

If you receive an unexpected phone call or text message that claims to be from Medicare and asks for personal information, it's a scam. Medicare does not engage in telemarketing, and they won't call you unless you've called them first.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides information about Medicare coverage, Medicare health plans, Medicare quality initiatives and free publications. The Medicare Helpline: 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) TTY: 1-877-486-2048. Find your state Medical Assistance Office.