The top five outpatient prescription drugs ranked by total expense for Medicare beneficiaries, by insurance status, 2004 /

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Author / Creator:	Stagnitti, Marie N.
Imprint:	[Rockville, Md.] : Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, [2007]
Description:	4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, tables.
Language:	English
Series:	Statistical brief ; #186 Statistical brief (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (U.S.)) ; #186.
Subject:	Medicare. Pharmaceutical services insurance -- United States. Prescription pricing -- United States.
Format:	E-Resource U.S. Federal Government Document Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7351808

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Other authors / contributors:	United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (U.S.)
Notes:	Title from title screen (viewed Sept. 15, 2008). "September 2007." "The estimates in this brief are derived from the Household Component of the 2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC)"--P. [1]. Includes bibliographical references (page [4]). Mode of access: Internet from the MEPS AHRQ web site. Address as of 9/15/2008: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data%5Ffiles/publications/st186/stat186.pdf; current access available via PURL.
Summary:	This statistical brief provides information on the top five outpatient prescription medicines ranked by total expenditures and insurance status for the Medicare population, as reported by households in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized (community) population in calendar year 2004. This brief also provides information on average total payments and average out-of-pocket payments per purchase for the top five drugs for Medicare beneficiaries, by insurance status.
GPO item no.:	0491-B-41 (online)
Govt.docs classification:	HE 20.6517/10:186

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