{"id":17957,"date":"2021-04-06T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17957"},"modified":"2021-04-06T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:48:37","slug":"almost-half-of-near-poor-medicare-beneficiaries-spend-at-least-one-fifth-of-their-income-on-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17957","title":{"rendered":"Almost half of near-poor Medicare beneficiaries spend at least one-fifth of their income on health care costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health found \u201cnear poor\u201d \u2013whose incomes are between 100% and 200% of the federal poverty level, or $12,880 to $25,760 for a single person in 2021- who rely on Medicare for health insurance face high medical bills and may forgo essential health care. The researchers say \u201cthis is due to coverage \u201ccliff\u201d in Medicaid, which supplements Medicare for people with incomes below poverty but excludes individuals above the federal poverty threshold, including the near-poor.\u201d The researchers found \u201cthe near-poor used 55 percent few outpatient and preventive health services and filled fewer prescriptions per year, including fewer chronic disease medications.\u201d To read what the researchers suggest for the solution to the Medicaid coverage cliff, clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20210406\/Researchers-propose-new-solutions-to-fill-gaps-in-Medicare-coverage.aspx\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8434\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w\" 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>New research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health found \u201cnear poor\u201d \u2013whose incomes are between 100%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,16,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957","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=17957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17960,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957\/revisions\/17960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}