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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease financial burden is heavy on state Medicaid programs
August 13th, 2006
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease places a substantial financial burden on state Medicaid programs. According to recent research from the United States, "State Medicaid programs provide insurance coverage to over 40 million Americans. However, estimates of the annual cost of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from the Medicaid perspective are lacking." "This retrospective cohort study used Medicaid administrative claims data from California and Florida to estimate COPD expenditures using two alternative methods: (1) excess costs (comparing a COPD cohort to a matched comparison cohort); and (2) attributable costs (COPD-related...
Source: Health Insurance Law Weekly (2006-08-13)
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