{"id":25678,"date":"2026-03-10T08:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25678"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:06:37","slug":"medicare-part-d-enrollment-in-2026-5-things-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25678","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Part D enrollment in 2026: 5 things to know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the annual enrollment period for 2026, 56.1 million people \u2014 up from 54.6 million in 2025 \u2014 are enrolled in Medicare Part D, which includes standalone prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage, as of February.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/medicare-part-d-enrollment-in-2026-5-things-to-know\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/medicare-advantage\/medicare-part-d-enrollment-in-2026-5-things-to-know\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Elizabeth Casolo for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Following the annual enrollment period for 2026, 56.1 million people \u2014 up from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1517,21,9,15],"tags":[80,385,238,62,65,94],"class_list":["post-25678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-consumer-data","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678","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=25678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25679,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678\/revisions\/25679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}