{"id":13858,"date":"2026-06-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13858"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:00:00","slug":"how-medicare-advantage-rebates-disadvantage-medicares-stand-alone-drug-plan-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=13858","title":{"rendered":"How Medicare Advantage Rebates Disadvantage Medicare\u2019s Stand-Alone Drug Plan Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The private plans that offer the Medicare Part D benefit &#8211; stand-alone drug plans and Medicare Advantage drug plans &#8211; are increasingly are competing on uneven terms, in part because the payment system for Medicare Advantage plans enables them to lower Part D premiums or reduce Part D cost sharing, making drug coverage from Medicare Advantage plans appear considerably cheaper, or even premium-free, to the beneficiary. This brief discusses the growing instability of the Part D stand-alone drug plan market and how the Medicare Advantage payment system makes it harder to maintain competitive and affordable options in the PDP market.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The private plans that offer the Medicare Part D benefit &#8211; stand-alone drug plans and Medicare Advantage drug plans &#8211; are increasingly are competing on uneven terms, in part because the payment system for Medicare Advantage plans enables them to lower Part D premiums or reduce Part D cost sharing, making drug coverage from Medicare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}