{"id":12420,"date":"2019-01-15T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12420"},"modified":"2019-01-15T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T13:22:16","slug":"price-shifting-strategies-could-affect-patients-out-of-pocket-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12420","title":{"rendered":"Price-shifting Strategies Could Affect Patients&#8217; Out-of-pocket Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on www.reuters.com, Reuters reporter\u00a0Lisa Rapaport examines proposals on the table to reduce drug spending primarily through shifting coverage to standalone Part D plans. Her analysis points to the potential for increased spending by patients that could result from the shift. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-medicare-drugs\/medicare-changes-could-have-some-patients-paying-more-for-drugs-idUSKCN1P82FW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read her post here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: Any\u00a0links\u00a0provided in this post above connect\u00a0readers to the full content of the referenced article. The URL (internet address) for these\u00a0links are valid\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the links' validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on www.reuters.com, Reuters reporter\u00a0Lisa Rapaport examines proposals on the table to reduce drug spending primarily through shifting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12421,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12420\/revisions\/12421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}