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People with disabilities are the highest-cost Medicaid group (access required)

by Amy Gillentine

Published: October 22,2009

Time posted: 9:05 am

Tags: disabilities, Kaiser Permanente, Medicaid, pharmacy costs

Medicaid patients with disabilities also have other problems that lead to higher drug and medical costs. A Kaiser Permanente study, built on an earlier analysis of one year of national Medicaid diagnostic data, found that when prescription drugs were added to the study, more problems were associated with people with disabilities, making them both the highest-need and the highest cost ...





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