Mr. Lopez, who is fairly well-off financially, would like to enroll in a Medicare prescription drug plan you represent and simply give you a check to cover his premiums for the entire year. What should you tell him?
a. He will need to mail in his payment with his enrollment form.
b. This is perfectly acceptable. You will be happy to forward his payment to the plan.
c. Enrollees should pay using automatic withdrawal from a bank account or credit or debit card, direct monthly billing from the plan, or deductions from their Social Security check.
d. You can take his first payment, but after that, he will need to make arrangements to send his monthly premium payment to the plan.