{"id":23850,"date":"2025-01-08T08:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23850"},"modified":"2025-01-08T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:51:29","slug":"how-many-people-will-benefit-from-the-price-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23850","title":{"rendered":"How many people will benefit from the price cap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a Medicare recipient who takes expensive prescriptions, you will get a break on your drug costs in 2025. The Inflation Reduction Act 2022 enabled Medicare to negotiate drug prices and establish a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket spending for Medicare recipients. Ken Alltucker explains what seniors need to know about the Medicare drug cap. Read Mr. Alltucker\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/01\/07\/medicare-caps-prescription-costs-at-2000-seniors\/77484215007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/01\/07\/medicare-caps-prescription-costs-at-2000-seniors\/77484215007\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-10021\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/dreamstime_m_36312255pills-medicine-dollar-cost-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" 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>If you are a Medicare recipient who takes expensive prescriptions, you will get a break on your drug costs in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,10,15],"tags":[385,238,131,65,94],"class_list":["post-23850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-inflation-reduction-act-of-2022","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850","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=23850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23851,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850\/revisions\/23851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}