The effect of the Medicare Part D prescription benefit on drug utilization and expenditures.

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Published in Ann Intern Med on January 07, 2008

Authors

Wesley Yin1, Anirban Basu, James X Zhang, Atonu Rabbani, David O Meltzer, G Caleb Alexander

Author Affiliations

1: Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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