{"id":15165,"date":"2020-02-06T08:33:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15165"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T13:33:50","slug":"changes-to-medicare-advantage-plans-to-lower-prescription-drug-costs-for-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15165","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Medicare Advantage plans to lower prescription drug costs for seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More changes are coming to Medicare Advantage plans.\u00a0 The proposal aims to create more transparency within Medicare\u2019s prescription drug benefit and to enhance price competition beginning in 2022.\u00a0 The changes would require MA plans to give beneficiaries tools to compare the out-of-pocket costs of different drugs allowing patients to shop around for the cheapest medications.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/medicare-advantage-seniors-prescription-drugs-a5be4587-ed9a-4fdd-ab0f-1bb0faaa3667.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10021\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More changes are coming to Medicare Advantage plans.\u00a0 The proposal aims to create more transparency within Medicare\u2019s prescription drug benefit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165","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=15165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15166,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15165\/revisions\/15166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}