{"id":25348,"date":"2025-12-29T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25348"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:57:36","slug":"looking-at-medicare-2026-cost-increases-and-decreases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25348","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Medicare 2026: Cost Increases and Decreases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The implications of legislation enacted in recent years will have an impact in 2026, and it could be positive or negative for individual beneficiaries, depending on their type of coverage. Price negotiation provisions enacted via the &#8220;Inflation Reduction Act&#8221; from the Biden Administration, along with the Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) changes coming out of the Trump Administration&#8217;s &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill Act&#8221; have created a bit of a maelstrom&nbsp;in the health care world, as explained in an NBC News post by health and medical reporter Berkeley Lovelace Jr. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Lovelace&#8217;s post addresses the impact of drug pricing changes, citing real-world experiences of how the changes are affecting some patients. He also examines the effects of ACA subsidy changes and evolving Medicaid requirements, among other issues, as evicence of the level ofchange facing beneficiaries in 2026. Lovelace summarizes the matter with this quote: &#8220;If you\u2019re on Medicare, there\u2019s some good news,\u201d said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan research group. \u201cIf you\u2019re on the ACA or Medicaid, it may be bad news ahead for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/aca-medicaid-medicare-health-care-expensive-some-cheaper-others-rcna249526\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/aca-medicaid-medicare-health-care-expensive-some-cheaper-others-rcna249526\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><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.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implications of legislation enacted in recent years will have an impact in 2026, and it could be positive or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,6],"tags":[66,184,67,61,1782],"class_list":["post-25348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-inflation-reduction-act","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-one-big-beautiful-bill-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25348","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25351,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25348\/revisions\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}