Number Of Medicaid Prescriptions Grew, Drug Spending Was Steady In Medicaid Expansion States.
Expansions of eligibility for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act may have increased the number of Medicaid drug prescriptions. However, the expansions did not drive Medicaid spending on prescription drugs overall in 2014.
Hefei Wen (hefei.wen@uky.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington.
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Tyrone F. Borders is the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Endowed Chair in Rural Health Policy and a professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Kentucky.
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Benjamin G. Druss is the Rosalynn Carter Chair and a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Cost of Health Care; Health Reform; Medicaid