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Article: Processing glitch mangles Medicare Part D premiums.(glitch in funds transfer from Social Security to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)(Hampshire First Bank opens first office in Nashua)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
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- December 8, 2006
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If your Medicare Part D premiums are automatically taken out of your Social Security check, you just might want to double-check that deduction.
A glitch in transferring funds from Social Security to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees Medicare--dating back to at least September and possibly as far as 11 months--has failed to pay the premiums of as many as 700,000 subscribers nationwide, thousands of them in New Hampshire, to the federal government's prescription drug program.
Letters were provided to NHBR Daily by the Boston regional office of CMS which were originally issued Oct. 30 by John R. Dyer, CMS's ...