Estimating the Cost of a Medicare Outpatient Prescription Drug Benefit

People enrolled in Medicare account for more than one-third of all outpatient prescription drug expenditures in the United States. That being the case, a proposed prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program would insure a substantial part of the market and would create the largest expansion...

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Autor principal: Waldo, Daniel R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CENTERS for MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES 1994
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Prescription Drugs: Payment and Policy Issues
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10172143
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description People enrolled in Medicare account for more than one-third of all outpatient prescription drug expenditures in the United States. That being the case, a proposed prescription drug benefit under the Medicare program would insure a substantial part of the market and would create the largest expansion of the program in the past 20 years. This article explains how the cost of a drug benefit was estimated as part of the Clinton Administration's health reform initiative.
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