{"id":25711,"date":"2026-03-17T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25711"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:52:03","slug":"medicare-to-provide-broader-drug-coverage-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25711","title":{"rendered":"Medicare to provide broader drug coverage in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of 2025, approximately 68.9 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare. Medicare continues to serve as the primary health insurance program for older adults and certain younger individuals with disabilities in the U.S. \u00a0Medicare is not a static program; it changes as the healthcare needs of Americans change. In April 2026, Medicare will expand the coverage for a popular class of medications. Christy Bieber, writing for The Motley Fool, explains the Medicare change that may soon provide broader coverage to improve Medicare recipients\u2019 health. Read Ms. Bieber\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2026\/03\/16\/medicare-making-major-change-to-expand-coverage\/\">here\u2026<\/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>As of 2025, approximately 68.9 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare. Medicare continues to serve as the primary health insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,15],"tags":[80,385,238,65,94],"class_list":["post-25711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711","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=25711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25712,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions\/25712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}