{"id":12947,"date":"2019-04-01T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:57:01","slug":"doughnut-hole-is-gone-but-medicares-uncapped-drug-costs-still-bite-into-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12947","title":{"rendered":"Doughnut Hole Is Gone, But Medicare\u2019s Uncapped Drug Costs Still Bite Into Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Three times a week, Tod Gervich injects himself with Copaxone, a prescription drug that can reduce the frequency of relapses in people who have some forms of multiple sclerosis. After more than 20 years with the disease, Gervich, 66, is accustomed to managing his condition. What he can\u2019t get used to is how Medicare\u2019s coinsurance charges drain his wallet.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/doughnut-hole-is-gone-but-medicares-uncapped-drug-costs-still-bite-into-budgets\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=71264069&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_iJqjxvaieKuCIhYGTyiPFi8JHe-8oNuIKc4hA230vXslw8mzUnMnxX9LBx_u17hrbrrilbk-oTQGGsPU9JWNccuktyg&amp;_hsmi=71264069\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) Three times a week, Tod Gervich injects himself with Copaxone, a 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":[6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947","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=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12948,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/12948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}