Study: Disabled Patients Who Can't Afford Medications Go to ED More

Nonadherence to prescription medication due to cost is associated with emergency department visits among disabled Medicare patients under 65, according to a study in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Researchers analyzed responses from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey in 2006 and 2007. Disabled Medicare beneficiaries under the age of 65 with a high rate of cost-related medication nonadherence were more likely to have at least one ED visit in a year compared with their counterparts who did not have cost-related medication nonadherence and elderly Medicare beneficiaries who had cost-related medication nonadherence.

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