Medicare Premium Reimbursement for Retired Rural Carriers with Medicare B

• The Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program is a new, separate program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
• PSHB will provide health benefits plans to eligible Postal Service employees, Postal Service annuitants, and their eligible family members starting on January 1, 2025.
• Postal Service employees and Postal Service annuitants will no longer be eligible to enroll or continue enrollment in an FEHB plan as of January 1, 2025, and must enroll in a PSHB plan to maintain health coverage through the Postal Service.
• If a Postal Service employee or Postal Service annuitant is covered under a family member’s FEHB plan not through the Postal Service, they can continue that coverage after January 1, 2025.
• Former Postal Service employees and their family members who are on Temporary Continuation of Coverage prior to January 1, 2025, through their FEHB plan will continue with that FEHB plan after January 1, 2025.

Some plans in the PSHB offer Medicare Premium Reimbursement to retirees up to a certain dollar amount.

The Medicare Part B premium reimbursement amounts listed are the maximum per person dollar amounts members would be reimbursed for their Part B premiums annually.

The plans below are the Fee For Service Nationwide Plans in the PSHB program that offer Medicare Premium Reimbursement.

I have not included the HMO plans or the Medicare Advantage Plans that offer the reimbursement, but you can find that information at this link at the OPM website.

Here is a chart that also includes the Medicare Advantage plans.

Be sure and check with the specific plans to confirm their Medicare Premium Reimbursement Program.

Here are a couple of links to help you wade through all of the new information on the PSHB plan