{"id":12466,"date":"2019-01-22T08:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12466"},"modified":"2019-01-22T08:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:13:42","slug":"medicare-experiment-could-put-more-pressure-on-insurers-to-save-money-on-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12466","title":{"rendered":"Medicare experiment could put more pressure on insurers to save money on prescription drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">W<\/span><\/span>ASHINGTON \u2014 The federal government is giving health insurance companies that run Medicare prescription drug plans new tools it hopes will save money for patients.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/01\/18\/medicare-experiment-insurers-drug-prices\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=69184695&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8nK5bRBSBiXFQmm_kjRHDFOsgPyrdJ5Asn-4OajkWB8RzEqOcxCD8iRlx9QLaQ7XmG7Yx3l_3QrosMLNSUdSHcGLFnlA&amp;_hsmi=69184695\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 The federal government is giving health insurance companies that run Medicare prescription drug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12467,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions\/12467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}