AARP/United Healthcare Medicare Rx Plan First month premium ripoff racket Internet

@Sandy, My premiums are deducted, but I also made one payment.  SSA has no way of knowing about the payment I made directly to UHC.  I will ask for the payment history in writing but the problem is SSA pays the January premium in early March.  (Everyone's January benefits are paid late February).  As I said before.  UHC claims the January payment from SSA received early March is for the February premium.  As I said before.  SSA says very clearly in writing that that payment is for January.  UHC is scamming _everyone_ out of one month's premium.

If the premiums for your RX plan are paid only up to the current month of your enrollment, there is nothing to refund. If your premiums are deducted from Social Security, any overpayment of premiums would be auto refunded by them, not your plan. You may call the member services number on the back of your ID card to request a written payment history to verify your premium payments. 

The social security administration sent me a letter stating that they paid all premiums due to date.  What part of that is so hard to understand?  SSA knows which month their payments were supposed to apply to.  UHC believes SSA does not know what month the payments apply to.  Who knows better?  My premium was deducted from my January benefit.  UHC credited it to my February premium.  Thats all there is to it.  It happened to my wife in exactly the same way.  Thus, it probably happens to everyone.

This will be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt early next February when SSA pays UHC my December premium, after I switch to a different plan.  That will represent the 13th premium paid (counting the extra payment I made for January) and then UHC will refund my extra payment.

In the mean time, the SSA confirmed that I should not have been billed for the January premium and that I did not owe it, and they have referred the matter to the inspector general for investigation.

Dan wrote "If there are any overpayments you may request a refund".  I did request a refund from UHC.  They won't give me one.  They agreed that once I have paid 13 premiums for a 12 month membership (which will happen February 2014, but UHC thinks that won't happen), then they will issue a refund.

 You are mistaken in your belief that you are overpaying premiums. When you choose to have your premiums paid by Social Security deductions, it can take up to 90 days for Social Security to start sending premium payments to your insurance plan. Depending on the date your enrollment was approved by Medicare; you may have to pay the first month's premium yourself. Social Security's cutoff date for deduction requests is the 11th of each month. Therefore, if your enrollment was approved by Medicare anytime after the 11th, you would be responsible for paying the first premium. If there are any overpayments you may request a refund or that the extra amount be applied to a future premium, in which case nothing would be deducted from Social Security for that month.