Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs [PDF]
Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional ...
Michael R. Veall +3 more
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Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending and Charon’s Obol [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2012 In this issue of JGIM, Kelley et al. used nationally representative survey data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine out-of-pocket household spending on medical care for 3,209 Medicare beneficiaries in the last 5 years of life.1 For beneficiaries dying between 2002 and 2008, they found this spending averaged $38,688, ranging from $5,163 for ...
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Pocket Banks and Out-of-Pocket Losses: Links between Corruption and Contagion [PDF]
The author describes a model with a corrupt banking system, in which bankers knowingly lend at market interest rates to back projects riskier than the market rate indicates.
Raphael H. Solomon
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Two Rules on the Protein-Ligand Interaction [PDF]
, 2008 So far, we still lack a clear molecular mechanism to explain the protein-ligand interaction on the basis of electronic structure of a protein. By combining the calculation of the full electronic structure of a protein along with its hydrophobic pocket ...
Lily Zhang +4 more
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Impact of Positive Lifestyle Behaviors on Direct Health Care Cost Savings for Low Back Pain
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a previously purpose‐developed lifestyle behavior scale and health care cost savings related to low back pain (LBP). Methods This longitudinal study used data from the Australian Twin Back (AUTBACK) study. LBP and lifestyle behavior measures were collected at baseline. Physical activity
Ye Tian +8 more
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The Effect of the Risk of Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care on Economic Preparation for Retirement [PDF]
After retirement, the primary sources of uncertainty with respect to an individual’s economic status are longevity, investment outcomes and out-of-pocket spending on health care.
Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder
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Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market Is Not a Viable Option for Most U.S. Families [PDF]
, 2009 Based on the Commonwealth Fund 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Survey, examines access to and affordability of individual insurance. Reviews obstacles to obtaining coverage, such as health issues and costs, and out-of-pocket costs of those who obtain ...
Jennifer L. Nicholson +3 more
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Financial Distress and Its Determinants in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To quantify the degree of financial distress and identify its determinants in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) given the frequent prolonged use of expensive disease‐modifying therapies. Methods We identified adults enrolled in the FORWARD databank with either RA or noninflammatory musculoskeletal disease (NIMSKD) completing the ...
Amber Brown Keebler +5 more
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Does cost sharing do more harm or more good? - a systematic literature review
BMC Public Health, 2016 Background There are positive and negative consequences of the implementation of out of pocket (OOP) payments as a source of the healthcare financing.
Katarzyna Kolasa, Marta Kowalczyk
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Benefit Plan Design and Prescription Drug Utilization Among Asthmatics: Do Patient Copayments Matter? [PDF]
Objective: The ratio of controller to reliever medication use has been proposed as a measure of treatment quality for asthma patients. In this study we examine the effects of plan level mean out-of-pocket asthma medication patient copayments and other ...
Ernst R. Berndt +4 more
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