{"id":16105,"date":"2020-05-27T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16105"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:23:20","slug":"president-trump-announces-lower-out-of-pocket-insulin-costs-for-medicares-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16105","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Announces Lower Out of Pocket Insulin Costs for Medicare\u2019s Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-release)<\/p>\n<p>Today, under President Trump\u2019s leadership, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that over 1,750 standalone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage have applied to offer lower insulin costs through the Part D Senior Savings Model for the 2021 plan year. Across the nation, participating enhanced Part D prescription drug plans will provide Medicare beneficiaries access to a broad set of insulins at a maximum $35 copay for a month\u2019s supply, from the beginning of the year through the Part D coverage gap. The model follows on the Trump Administration\u2019s previously announced 13.5 percent decline in the average monthly basic Part D premium since 2017 to the lowest level in seven years.\u00a0 Continue reading press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/president-trump-announces-lower-out-pocket-insulin-costs-medicares-seniors\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7780\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w\" 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>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-release) Today, under President Trump\u2019s leadership, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that over 1,750<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105","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=16105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16106,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105\/revisions\/16106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}