{"id":16442,"date":"2020-07-14T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:57:13","slug":"do-medicare-advantage-plans-have-an-out-of-pocket-maximum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16442","title":{"rendered":"Do Medicare Advantage plans have an out-of-pocket maximum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Original Medicare has no out-of-pocket maximum limit on how much you will pay, but Medicare Advantage plans do cap the costs. So what is an out-pocket-maximum?\u00a0 The term out-of-pocket maximum or limit is, according to healthcare.gov, the most one will have to pay for covered services in a plan year. \u00a0In Diane Omdahl\u2019s article appearing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a> she takes a closer look at how out-of-pocket maximum works in the Medicare world. Read Ms. Omdahl\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dianeomdahl\/2020\/07\/14\/medicares-out-of-pocket-maximum-limit-how-much-will-it-cost-you\/#69bb21e42c14\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w\" 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>Original Medicare has no out-of-pocket maximum limit on how much you will pay, but Medicare Advantage plans do cap the<\/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-16442","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\/16442","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=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16443,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions\/16443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}