Medicare Plan D: Impact on Medication Compliance in the Elderly

This dissertation examined the impact of Medicare Plan D on medication compliance in Medicare beneficiaries at University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, TX. Data were collected before and after the implementation of Plan D. The impacts of various types of benefits, such as private insurance, employer insurance and pharmacy assistance programs were evaluated in terms of impact on drug compliance. Medication compliance was found to increase in those respondents without Plan D. Plan D was found to be a predictor of those who spent less on basics in order to buy medications. Although compliance increased in general, these increases could not be attributed to the acquisition of a Plan D policy.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Huff, Billie Kathryn

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ingman, Stanley R.
• Swan, James H.
• Beitinger, Thomas L.

• medication compliance
• Medicare Plan D
• insurance
• elderly
• drug spending
• United States. Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.
• Medicare.
• Patient compliance -- Texas -- Tyler.
• University of Texas Health Center at Tyler.
• Older people -- Drug use.

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Huff, Billie Kathryn
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 180067584
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