Exhaustion of drug benefits and disenrollment of medicare beneficiaries from managed care organizations.
- 26 April 2000
- journal article
- policy perspectives
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 283 (16) , 2163-2167
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.283.16.2163
Abstract
Many Medicare beneficiaries enroll in managed care health plans to obtain outpatient drug benefits. Increasing pharmaceutical utilization and costs and decreasing drug benefits increase the likelihood that medication use by such enrollees will exceed drug benefits, which may lead to health plan disenrollment.Keywords
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