{"id":23017,"date":"2024-06-28T09:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23017"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T13:01:49","slug":"health-insurers-cover-fewer-drugs-and-make-them-harder-to-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23017","title":{"rendered":"Health insurers cover fewer drugs and make them harder to get"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insurance coverage isn\u2019t what it used to be when it comes to prescription drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insurance companies\u2019 lists of covered drugs, called formularies, are shrinking. In 2010, the average Medicare formulary covered about three-quarters of all drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to new research by GoodRx, a website that helps patients find discounts on prescription drugs. Now, it\u2019s a little more than half.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/06\/27\/g-s1-6773\/health-insurers-cover-fewer-drugs-and-make-them-harder-to-get\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/06\/27\/g-s1-6773\/health-insurers-cover-fewer-drugs-and-make-them-harder-to-get\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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 Sydney Lupkin for NPR) Insurance coverage isn\u2019t what it used to be when it comes to prescription drugs. Insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21,200,6,15],"tags":[76,1395,422,385,61,65,510],"class_list":["post-23017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-fda","tag-formularies","tag-health-insurers","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-pbm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017","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=23017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23018,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017\/revisions\/23018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}