{"id":18388,"date":"2021-06-25T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18388"},"modified":"2021-06-25T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:34:21","slug":"medicare-spent-2-1b-on-discarded-drugs-in-2-years-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18388","title":{"rendered":"Medicare spent $2.1B on discarded drugs in 2 years, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Katie Adams for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>More than $2.1 billion of Medicare Part B&#8217;s spending from 2017 to 2019 went toward discarded units of drugs, according to a Medicare Advantage analysis.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/pharmacy\/medicare-spent-2-1b-on-discarded-drugs-in-2-years-study-shows.html\">here&#8230;<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Katie Adams for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) More than $2.1 billion of Medicare Part B&#8217;s spending from 2017 to 2019 went<\/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-18388","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\/18388","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=18388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18389,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions\/18389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}