{"id":512,"date":"2015-08-14T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=512"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:16:07","slug":"fact-check-friday-the-truth-about-negotiation-in-medicare-part-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check Friday: The Truth About Negotiation in Medicare Part D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Allyson Funk, via\u00a0www.prnewswire.com)<\/p>\n<p>Claims that there are no price negotiations currently taking place in Medicare Part D are false. Large powerful purchasers \u2013 who may represent as many as 63 million to 125 million covered lives (more than just Part D patients) \u2013 negotiate directly with prescription drug manufacturers to secure discounts and rebates under the program. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/fact-check-friday-the-truth-about-negotiation-in-medicare-part-d-300128580.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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>(By &#8211; Allyson Funk, via\u00a0www.prnewswire.com) Claims that there are no price negotiations currently taking place in Medicare Part D are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}