Associations Between Annual Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Loss and Prescription Drug Spending and Use.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy (LIS) program provides millions of beneficiaries with drug plan premium and cost-sharing assistance. The extent to which LIS recipients experience subsidy losses with annual redetermination cycles and the resulting associations with prescription drug affordability and use are unknown.

Objective

To examine how frequently annual LIS benefits are lost among Medicare Part D beneficiaries and how this is associated with prescription drug use and out-of-pocket costs.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cohort study of Medicare Part D beneficiaries from 2007 to 2018, annual changes in LIS recipients among those automatically deemed eligible (eg, due to dual eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid) and nondeemed beneficiar

SUBMITTER: Fung V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10837747 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature