{"id":14197,"date":"2019-10-07T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14197"},"modified":"2019-10-07T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T13:10:38","slug":"tricare-to-hike-costs-of-drugs-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14197","title":{"rendered":"Tricare to hike costs of drugs next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Maia Anderson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Prescription drug costs will soon rise by as much as 42 percent for military health insurance users, according to\u00a0Military.com.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Jan. 1, Tricare drug costs will increase due to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires price raises annually until at least 2027. The act aims to bring the amount users pay closer to the actual cost of prescription drugs, which have skyrocketed in recent years.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/tricare-to-hike-costs-of-drugs-next-year.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8462\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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 Maia Anderson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Prescription drug costs will soon rise by as much as 42 percent for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197","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=14197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14198,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions\/14198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}