Creating a Patient-Centered Tool to Help Medicare Beneficiaries Choose Prescription Drug Plans

Description

Goals are

To develop estimates of expected total out-of-pocket spending in different Part D plans for PAMF Medicare patients using medication use data in the electronic medical records;
To interactively develop a patient-centered tool to provide this information to beneficiaries; and
To evaluate the intervention using a randomized, controlled trial on a population of PAMF patients.

Co-PI is M. Kate Bundorf, MBA, MPH, PhD, Stanford University.

Co-Investigator(s)

Cheryl Stults, Ph.D., Albert S. Chan, M.D., M.S., FAAFP

Funder

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Start Date

October 09, 2014

End Date

March 30, 2017

Research Topics

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