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Evaluating the Patient-Centeredness of Medicare Part D
The implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit: "Part D") has brought about many changes in the provision of prescription medications to adults with serious mental illness. Existing research on the impact of Part D on this population, for the most part, examines the benefit from the …
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Evaluating Consumer Preferences for Medicare Part D Using Conjoint Analysis
… of an outpatient prescription drug benefit in Medicare, Medicare Part D, was one of the more significant events in United States healthcare reform history. Many seniors have chosen to enroll in the plan as the program has an enrollment of over 27 million. One central premise of Medicare Part D …
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Supply response to consumer inertia : strategic pricing in Medicare Part D
… that provide prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D exploit this inertia when setting prices. I first document descriptive evidence consistent with insurers initially setting low prices in order to "invest" in future demand before later raising prices to "harvest" inertial consumers. …
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Patient Perceptions of Physicians and Medication Adherence Among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries
… of Physicians and Medication Adherence Among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries. Major Professor: Joseph Thomas III.</p> <p>An observational database analysis using Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data was conducted to examine patient perceptions of physicians and associations with adherence to …
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An examination of the effects of medicare part d on racial/ethnic disparities
<p>This dissertation seeks to evaluate whether Medicare Part D has reduced racial/ethnic disparities in prescription drug utilization and spending among Medicare seniors. Using nationally representative data on White, African-American, and Hispanic Medicare seniors from the 2002-2009 Medical …
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Medicare Part D Coverage Gap: Who Falls In and What Beneficiaries Do to Avoid Entry
In 2006, the implementation of Medicare Part D offered seniors the benefit of government subsidized prescription drug coverage. The baby boomer generation is expected to retire at a rate of 10,000 per day for the next nineteen years. Research into health care and prescription drug coverage for this …
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Analysis of Out-of-Pocket Expenditures of Oral Oncologics for Tennessee Recipients of Medicare Part D
… patients' costs of oral oncology drugs from Medicare Part D plan providers. These drugs can impose a financial burden to beneficiaries, and, due to their cost, place beneficiaries in the coverage gap in a short period of time. In addition to examining costs, there is little published …
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Patients' Perceptions of Provider Communication, Provider Knowledge and Provider Competence and Associations with Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries
… medication (PIM) use among community-dwelling Medicare Part D beneficiaries, and to assess associations between patients' perceptions of provider communication, provider knowledge, and provider competence with PIM use. A retrospective observational analysis was conducted using data from the …
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Essays on the Industrial Organization of Public Health Insurance Markets
… companies, focusing on the context of the Medicare Part D program. In the first chapter, I study how the the relations between insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers affect the formulary design of Medicare Part D prescription drug plans. I construct an original data set of the …
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Regulation of public health insurance
… drug insurance program for seniors - Medicare Part D - to explore interactions among adverse selection, switching costs, and regulation. I document evidence of both adverse selection of beneficiaries across contracts and switching costs for beneficiaries in changing contracts within …
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Essays in health economics
… essay, we investigate the implementation of Medicare Part D and estimate that this prescription drug benefit program reduced elderly mortality by 2.2 percent annually. This was driven primarily by a reduction in cardiovascular mortality, the leading cause of death for the elderly. There was …
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CONCOMITANT USE OF BISPHOSPHONATES AND SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITORS AND INCREASED RISK OF OSTEOPOROTIC-RELATED FRACTURES: AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
… Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and Medicare Part D prescriptions claims data (2008-2010) to examine usage patterns of BPs and SSRIs/SNRIs for women aged ≥45 years and ≥65 years, respectively. For our second objective, a nested-case control was conducted using Medicare claims data …
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Development and Comparative Predictive Validity of an Outpatient Medication Exposure Measure for Risk Adjustment Using Retrospective Claims Data
… to improve risk-adjusted payments to Medicare Part C and Part D plans. Studies have identified prescription measures that predict future expenditures; however, many are easily manipulable by health plans or practitioners, thus limiting their utility as risk-adjusters. The addition of a …
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The RESILIENT Study: A Retrospective, Descriptive, Correlational Investigation of Rate and Correlates of Oral Endocrine Therapy Adherence in Older Women with Breast Cancer
… among older women with breast cancer enrolled in Medicare Part-D. It is important to consider older women with breast cancer; the medium breast cancer patient age was 62 and more than 20% of newly diagnosed patients were older than 70 in 2021. Most existing research on OET-NA has been conducted on …
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A Need for Government Intervention? Prescription Drug Prices and Retail Mark-ups
… examined for years. In 2003, Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, better known as Medicare Part D, in an effort to ease the burden of skyrocketing prescription prices for citizens 65 and older. While much of the discussion has focused on the impact on …
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Essays on health economics
… that provide prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D exploit this inertia when setting prices. I first document descriptive evidence consistent with insurers initially setting low prices in order to "invest" in future demand before later raising prices to "harvest" inertial consumers. …
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Market Response to Food and Drug Administration's Safety Warnings: a Case Study Using an Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the Medicare Database for 2006-2008
… data from a five percent national sample of Medicare Part D beneficiaries for the periods between January 2006 and December 2008. Beneficiaries with Part D claims for thiazolidinediones were classified into appropriate-use, at risk, and contraindicated groups based on certain comorbid …
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THE EFFECTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ON PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES, DEMAND, AND INNOVATION
… health insurance expansion in the U.S. since Medicare and Medicaid were introduced in 1965. This dissertation studies the causal effects of the ACA on pharmaceutical prices, demand, and innovation using a difference-in-differences framework with continuous treatment intensity. The …
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Pharmaceutical Industry Events and the Stock Market
… Generic Drug User Fee Act of 2012 (GDUFA) and Medicare Part D policies on the pharmaceutical industry’s stock returns. We hypothesize that the GDUFA will have a positive impact on generic firms and a negative impact on brand-name firms. We also analyze the exogenous shock of the announcement by …
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Trends in Prices of Insulin Marketed in the US
… the RedBook online, Medicaid.gov, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Prices were adjusted using the consumer price index (CPI). The compounded average group rate (CAGR) was calculated for each insulin product. Data was analyzed by summary …
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