Comments on: Arizona will continue Medicare QI-1 program

By: medicareblogger

medicareblogger — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:02:17 +0000

You should get another letter from AHCCCS this week which will say you won’t have to pay your Part B premium for the next two months. Then it is up to Congress to continue funding the program after the end of February.

From everything I have read, the funds will be approved and you will not have to pay the Part B premium in 2012. Apparently, this is a game Congress plays every year when it comes to funding Medicare help for people like you.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:36:41 +0000

I am one of the QI-1 people, but I only got the first letter, no followup one. Also, when I go into my myAHCCCS account, it still says that I have to pay the copay starting today. So, I am not quite sure what the state is doing, right now. They seem to be saying one thing and doing another.

By: Tip O'Neill

Tip O'Neill — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:52:25 +0000

Good work

Someone at AHCCs seems to be incompetent – I would ask for an investigation.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:10:39 +0000

Thank you for posting about this, and for following up with AHCCCS to find out what the heck was going on! What a relief to my low-income mother this is–she really had no idea how she was going to come up with the money to pay for this program herself. I thought it very odd that we saw no coverage of this in the papers or on TV.