{"id":34771,"date":"2012-09-26T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/top_medicare_drug_plans_jacking_up_premiums_by_double-digits\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:15:32","slug":"top_medicare_drug_plans_jacking_up_premiums_by_double-digits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34771","title":{"rendered":"(Forbes) Top Medicare Drug Plans Jacking Up Premiums By Double-Digits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premium increases in certain Medicare drug plans may be more volatile next year with some popular plan rates jumping by double-digit percentages, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Avalere Health, a Washington-based advisory firm and consultant to the health care industry said seven of the 10 most popular prescription drug plans chosen by seniors have double-digit percentage increases in their monthly premiums. Here\u2019s a link to the Avalere report that analyzes the so-called Medicare Part D drug plans that contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to offer seniors prescription drug coverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2012\/09\/25\/top-medicare-drug-plans-jacking-up-premiums-by-double-digits\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premium increases in certain Medicare drug plans may be more volatile next year with some popular plan rates jumping by double-digit percentages, a new study shows. A report by Avalere Health, a Washington-based advisory firm and consultant to the health<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34771\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,582,149,104,675,593,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-medicare","category-personal-finance","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}