{"id":9321,"date":"2018-01-20T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:12:15","slug":"proposed-federal-policy-will-make-major-changes-to-medicare-advantage-and-medicare-part-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9321","title":{"rendered":"Proposed federal policy will make major changes to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">A proposed federal policy that would lower what patients pay out of pocket when they pick up their prescriptions is being criticized by health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers. The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services received more than 1,600 comments on the proposed rule that would make major changes to Medicare Part D drug program and Medicare Advantage. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/the-medicare-drug-war-among-1516292230-77bd5a91-4058-4fc7-9117-84157b78c248.html\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8462\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_22904159senior-overwhelmed-by-medical-costs-700x599.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed federal policy that would lower what patients pay out of pocket when they pick up their prescriptions is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","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=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9322,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}