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Medicare: Prescription Drug Expenditures, 1997 (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date April 18, 2001
Report Number RS20612
Report Type Report
Authors Paulette C. Morgan, Domestic Social Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Medicare beneficiaries spent, on average, a total of $744 per person for prescription drugs in 1997 (including beneficiaries' out-of-pocket expenses and payments made by any third party payers). About 37 percent had total prescription drug expenditures of between $0 and $250. Approximately 25 percent of beneficiaries had total prescription drug expenditures of between $1 and $250.