{"id":25148,"date":"2025-11-13T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25148"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:31:02","slug":"medicare-premiums-are-being-pushed-by-rising-payments-to-medicare-advantage-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25148","title":{"rendered":"Medicare premiums are being pushed by rising payments to Medicare Advantage plans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a recent report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPaC), the cost of Medicare Part B premiums is being pushed by rising payments to Medicare Advantage plans. \u201cMedicare will spend about 20 percent more on Medicare Advantage enrollees than on those using regular Medicare in 2025.\u201d Erik Bojnansky, reporting for Yahoo! News, explains how Medicare recipients end up paying more thanks to Medicare Advantage plans. Read Mr. Bojnansky\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/medicare-recipients-end-paying-more-173000134.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/medicare-recipients-end-paying-more-173000134.html\">here\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-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>According to a recent report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPaC), the cost of Medicare Part B premiums is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,53,6,9],"tags":[80,385,238,61,62,949,1097],"class_list":["post-25148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-hhs","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-b-premiums","tag-medpac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148","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=25148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25149,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25148\/revisions\/25149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}