کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7363064 1478963 2016 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The anticipatory effects of Medicare Part D on drug utilization
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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The anticipatory effects of Medicare Part D on drug utilization
چکیده انگلیسی
While health care policies are frequently signed into law well before they are implemented, such lags are ignored in most empirical work. This paper demonstrates the importance of implementation lags in the context of Medicare Part D, the prescription drug benefit that took effect two years after it was signed into law. Exploiting the differential responses of chronic and acute drugs to anticipated future prices, I show that individuals reduced drug utilization for chronic but not acute drugs in anticipation of Part D's implementation. Accounting for this anticipatory response substantially reduces the estimated total treatment effect of Part D.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 49, September 2016, Pages 28-45
نویسندگان
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