Promoting access and reducing expected out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for vulnerable medicare beneficiaries a pharmacist-directed model

Medical Care

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-347

  Cutler, Timothy W ^a   Stebbins, Marilyn R ^a   Smith, Amanda R ^a   Patel, Rajul A ^b   Lipton, Helene L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicare Part D; Out of pocket drug costs; Pharmacists; Vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHARMACIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954579307     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318202a9f2     Document Type: Article

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