{"id":41661,"date":"2009-11-13T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"ed01f205-d99c-4fb1-b3b1-58151e426f4c"},"modified":"2009-11-13T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T20:25:35","slug":"medicare-open-enrollment-starts-sunday-premiums-will-rise-11-percent-on-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41661","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Open Enrollment Starts Sunday, Premiums Will Rise 11 Percent On Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/health.usnews.com\/articles\/health\/healthday\/2009\/11\/13\/medicare-part-d-what-to-expect-this-open.html\" >U.S. News &amp; World Report\/HealthDay News<\/a> reports that seniors who participate in Medicare Part D&#8217;s will likely notice significant changes during this year&#8217;s open enrollment period, which begins Nov. 15.\u00a0&#8220;Monthly premiums will rise 11 percent to $38.94, on average, according to an analysis published by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. That&#8217;s up 50 percent from 2006, the first year that Medicare Part D drug benefits were offered.&#8221; Seniors can enroll in a private prescription drug plans if they&#8217;re enrolled in traditional Medicare or if they have Medicare Advantage, they can get Part D benefits through that plan. &#8220;Seniors will get little relief, however, from cost-sharing requirements.&#8221; In addition, costs resulting from the Part D &#8220;donut hole&#8221; will\u00a0increase, &#8220;starting after a beneficiary has incurred $2,830 in drug spending. Coverage resumes for drug costs above $6,440.&#8221; U.S. News also notes that &#8220;The House of Representatives on Nov. 7 passed a sweeping health reform bill that provides gap relief beginning in 2010 and eliminates the gap by 2019. However, the Senate must act before any health reform legislation is enacted&#8221; (Pallarito, 11\/13). In a separate story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/money\/blogs\/the-best-life\/2009\/11\/13\/2010-medicare-changes-demand-careful-review.html\" >U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a> reports\u00a0on broader changes to the Medicare program (Moeller, 11\/13).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/f2DjdSrYPb0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. News &amp; World Report\/HealthDay News reports that seniors who participate in Medicare Part D&#8217;s will likely notice significant changes during this year&#8217;s open enrollment period, which begins Nov. 15.\u00a0&#8220;Monthly premiums will rise 11 percent to $38.94, on average, according to an analysis published by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. That&#8217;s up 50 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}