Changes in Drug Utilization during a Gap in Insurance Coverage: An Examination of the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap

Jennifer Polinski and colleagues estimated the effect of the "coverage gap" during which US Medicare beneficiaries are fully responsible for drug costs and found that the gap was associated with a doubling in discontinuing essential medications.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Polinski, Jennifer M., Shrank, William H., Huskamp, Haiden A., Glynn, Robert J., Liberman, Joshua N., Schneeweiss, Sebastian
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156689/