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Prescription drug coverage, utilization, and spending among Medicare beneficiaries.
Health Affairs 1999 January
Outpatient prescription drugs are not a covered benefit under Medicare. There have been proposals in the past to expand Medicare benefits to include drug coverage, and current discussions dealing with "modernizing" the Medicare benefit package have raised the issue again. Using data from the 1995 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), we describe the sources and extent of drug coverage among Medicare beneficiaries. The data show that 65 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have some level of drug coverage--a figure much higher than previous published numbers--and that 95 percent of Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees have drug coverage. The data provide a baseline to observe future changes in the level of coverage, particularly among Medicare managed care plans.
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