{"id":23944,"date":"2025-01-30T09:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23944"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T14:57:23","slug":"what-are-the-medicare-part-d-changes-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23944","title":{"rendered":"What are the Medicare Part D changes in 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill that led to the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid program, the programs changed. One of the biggest changes to the Medicare program was to include an optional prescription drug benefit, \u201cPart D,\u201d which went into effect in 2006. Another change to Medicare was the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which may impact how much you pay for prescription medications. Elaine K. Howley outlines the changes taking effect in 2025. Read Ms. Howley\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/medicare\/articles\/how-medicare-part-d-has-changed\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/medicare\/articles\/how-medicare-part-d-has-changed\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w\" 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>On July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill that led to the creation of the Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,200,6,9,15],"tags":[80,385,238,61,62,65,94],"class_list":["post-23944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944","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=23944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23945,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions\/23945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}