Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Managing Prescription Drug Costs Among Older Adults in Medicare

Elizabeth Staton, Heeju Sohn

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 2025

We used nationally representative Medicare survey data to evaluate how differences in socioeconomic resources, access to care, health care need, and the use of cost-saving strategies contributed to inequalities in prescription cost burden among older Medicare beneficiaries.

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