Responses to medicare drug costs among near-poor versus subsidized beneficiaries

Health Services Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1653-1668

  Fung, Vicki ^a   Reed, Mary ^b   Price, Mary ^b   Brand, Richard ^c   Dow, William H ^d   Newhouse, Joseph P ^e   Hsu, John ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

drug cost sharing; low income subsidies; Medicare

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; DRUG COST; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POVERTY; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW;

DRUG COST-SHARING; LOW-INCOME SUBSIDIES; MEDICARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICARE PART D; POVERTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884900894     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12062     Document Type: Article

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