{"id":22178,"date":"2023-12-12T07:42:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T12:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22178"},"modified":"2023-12-12T07:42:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T12:42:18","slug":"3-inflation-reduction-act-medicare-changes-taking-effect-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22178","title":{"rendered":"3 Inflation Reduction Act Medicare changes taking effect in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal government will cap drug copays and premiums for Medicare beneficiaries and expand eligibility for financial assistance for medications in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new policies are part of the Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, and being rolled out over several years. In 2023, the legislation led to caps on insulin prices for Medicare beneficiaries and financial penalties for drugmakers raising the cost of their medications higher than the rate of inflation.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/3-inflation-reduction-act-medicare-changes-taking-effect-in-2024.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/3-inflation-reduction-act-medicare-changes-taking-effect-in-2024.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" class=\"wp-image-15015\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg 583w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:&nbsp;<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The federal government will cap drug copays and premiums for Medicare beneficiaries and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,200,10,56,6,15,39],"tags":[80,649,385,131,61,420,65,94],"class_list":["post-22178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","category-legislative-update","category-medical-debt","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","category-price-transparency","tag-cms","tag-drug-price-transparency","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-inflation-reduction-act-of-2022","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-insulin-cost-sharing","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178","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=22178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22179,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions\/22179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}