Abstract Background Medication reviews through Medicare's Medication Therapy
Management (MTM) program may improve patient outcomes and lower health system costs …

Recent reforms to regulated US health insurance markets—such as the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 state exchanges and Medicare Part D—are …

Objectives Significant literature exists on the effects of medication adherence on reducing
healthcare costs, but less is known about the effect of medication adherence among …

Medicare insures about half of the people in the United States diagnosed with
schizophrenia. More than 90 percent of these beneficiaries are eligible for a low-income …

Many health insurance programs in the United States have been shifting towards private
health insurance exchanges to harness the benefits of market competition. Designers and …

Chapter one expands on concepts from the statistics, computer science, and health
economics literature to develop new fair regression methods for health plan payment risk …

• Beneficiaries can select (using the online Medicare Plan Finder Tool) the lowest cost PDP
based on their individual needs (eg, drug regimen); but, there are multiple barriers to …

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) need long-term use of COPD
medications to manage their conditions. However, COPD patients enrolling in Medicare …

In 2015, the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit marked its 10th year of operation and
thus represents one of the newer components of a Medicare program that has delivered …

Background: Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a Part D drug plan are faced with choosing
from a large number of plans with a complex array of attributes. Unnecessarily high …