Medicare Part D Coverage and Its Influence on Transplant Patients' Out-of-Pocket Prescription Expenses.

Medicare. Part D: Prescription drug coverage.

Impact of Medicare Part D on seniors' out-of-pocket expenditures on medications.

BACKGROUND Medicare Part D, introduced in January 2006, was intended to decrease beneficiaries' out-of-pocket expenditures on medications. METHODS We examined whether this policy was successful in achieving this goal, including effects on Medicare beneficiaries without previous drug coverage and those who previously received coverage through Medicaid, in a longitudinal study of out-of-pocket ...

Out-of-pocket pharmacy expenditures for veterans under medicare part D.

OBJECTIVES Because the VA pharmacy benefit is deemed equivalent coverage to Medicare Part D, veterans can use either or both of these Federal benefits. We sought to determine how these programs' different benefit structures and low-income assistance thresholds would affect pharmacy out-of-pocket expenses for veterans. METHODS We reviewed income and asset tests performed at the Salt Lake City ...

Impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare-Medicaid dual-eligible beneficiaries' prescription utilization and expenditures.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of Part D on 65-78-year-old noninstitutionalized dual eligibles' prescription utilization and expenditures. DATA SOURCE Random sample of unique pharmacy customers of a national retail pharmacy chain who filled at least one prescription during both 2005 and 2006. For each subject, we obtained claims data for every prescription filled between January 1, 2005, and...

Providing prescription drug coverage to the elderly: America's experiment with Medicare Part D.

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