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Effect of Cost-Related Medication Non-adherence Among Older Adults With Medication Therapy Management

Frontiers in Medicine, 2021
Background: Medication therapy management (MTM) was established by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with the aim to improve medication adherence.
Weiwei Zhang, Gang Lv, Xiaomo Xiong, Minghui Li   +3 more
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Visualizing nationwide variation in medicare Part D prescribing patterns

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2018
Background To characterize the regional and national variation in prescribing patterns in the Medicare Part D program using dimensional reduction visualization methods.
Alexander Rosenberg, Christopher Fucile, Robert J. White, Melissa Trayhan, Samir Farooq, Caroline M. Quill, Lisa A. Nelson, Samuel J. Weisenthal, Kristen Bush, Martin S. Zand   +9 more
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The impact of Medicare part D on income-related inequality in pharmaceutical expenditure

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Income-related inequality measures such as the concentration index are often used to describe the unequal distribution of health, health care access, or expenditure in a single measure.
Natalie Carvalho, Dennis Petrie, Linkun Chen, Joshua A. Salomon, Philip Clarke   +4 more
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Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from administrative Data [PDF]

, 2012
We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non-mandatory health insurance markets, focusing on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize their choices of plans.
Heiss, Florian, Leive, Adam, McFadden, Daniel, Winter, Joachim   +3 more
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Lessons for Medicare Part D in the hemodialysis community

BMC Nephrology, 2006
Background Medicare beneficiaries without prescription drug coverage consistently fill fewer prescriptions than beneficiaries with some form of drug coverage due to cost.
Chertow Glenn M, Nayeem Anisa I
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Big Data fraud detection using multiple medicare data sources

Journal of Big Data, 2018
In the United States, advances in technology and medical sciences continue to improve the general well-being of the population. With this continued progress, programs such as Medicare are needed to help manage the high costs associated with quality ...
Matthew Herland, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Richard A. Bauder   +2 more
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Prescribing trends of proton pump inhibitors, antipsychotics and benzodiazepines of medicare part d providers

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Proton pump inhibitors, benzodiazepines, and antipsychotics are considered potentially inappropriate medications in older adults according to the American Geriatric Society Beers Criteria, and deprescribing algorithms have been developed to ...
Jennifer M. Toth, Saumil Jadhav, Holly M. Holmes, Manvi Sharma   +3 more
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Is patient insurance type related to physician recommendation, administration and referral for adult vaccination? A survey of US physicians

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019
This study evaluated physician practices and perceived barriers for influenza, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap), and zoster vaccination of adults in the United States (US), with emphasis on patients with Medicare versus commercial insurance. A cross-
Michelle McNamara, Philip O. Buck, Songkai Yan, Leonard R. Friedland, Kristin Lerch, Alysa Murphy, Cosmina Hogea   +6 more
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Trends and patterns of neurotology drug prescriptions on a nationwide insurance database

Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2021
Objective To examine neurotologists' 2013 to 2016 Medicare Part‐D data and evaluate commonly prescribed medications, longitudinal changes in prescribing patterns, presumed associated pathologies, and cost distribution across United States.
Khodayar Goshtasbi, Mehdi Abouzari, Arash Abiri, Kasra Ziai, Brandon M. Lehrich, Adwight Risbud, Soha Bayginejad, Harrison W. Lin, Hamid R. Djalilian   +8 more
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Effects of star ratings bonus payments on disparities in medication utilization issues

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2023
Background: Previous literature suggested that the consequences of inappropriate medication use may be borne disproportionately by racial/ethnic minorities.
Chi Chun Steve Tsang, Joseph Garuccio, Xiaobei Dong, Yongbo Sim, Junling Wang   +4 more
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