“Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the Definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: ‘This is a contemporary book, you bet.’…
Since 2006 numerous insurers have stopped serving the low-income segment of the Medicare Part D program, forcing millions of beneficiaries…
This paper presents the results of a field experiment in which a random subsample of older
workers was given information about key Social…
The widespread geographic variation in Medicare spending has garnered a great deal of attention in the health care reform debate, both as a…
Objective: To examine the impact of the Medicare drug benefit (Part D) on the distribution of out-of-pocket pharmacy spending among older…
The Medicare
Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, enacted in 2003,
substantially reduced payment rates for…
Background: Little is known about how Medicare Part D affects the medication refill adherence for cardiovascular and diabetes medications,…
A couple of weeks ago, I learned about “price points” by speaking at a conference for those who design hotels and restaurants. As many…
The positive correlation in utilization and lack of correlation in spending implies an inverse correlation in prices. This is consistent…
Many elderly people spend their final days in nursing homes.
For them, high-quality end-of-life care is an important component of
their…