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Federal Policies And Prescription Drugs, Ali Bonakdar Tehrani
Federal Policies And Prescription Drugs, Ali Bonakdar Tehrani
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation comprises three discrete empirical papers, with an introductory essay that evaluates the impact of different federal policies on prescription drug prices, utilization, and spending. Two main databases are used: (a) Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data and (b) the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data. These two databases are designed to track Medicaid drug utilization and overall medical use and expenditures, respectively. The variables of interest in this dissertation are prescription drug price, prescription drug use and spending, and overall drug expenditures.
The objective of the first paper (Chapter 2) is to examine whether oncology drug prices have significantly …