MCBS Highlights: Prescription Drug Coverage Among Medicare Beneficiaries
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The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) is a longitudinal survey of a nationally-representative sample of Medicare enrollees. The survey collects information on a variety of topics, including beneficiaries' health status; health care use and financing; and social, economic, and demographic characteristics. Medicare administrative data is regularly coupled with the information collected through the survey for validation purposes.
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Estimating the effects of prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries.
OBJECTIVE To identify the effect of insurance coverage on prescription utilization by Medicare beneficiaries. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Secondary data from the 1999 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Cost and Use files, a nationally representative survey of Medicare enrollees. STUDY DESIGN The paper uses a cross-sectional design with (1) a standard regression framework to estimate ...
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