Out-of-Pocket Spending Inequity Among High-Deductible Health Plan Members with Bipolar Disorder

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. jwharam@post.harvard.edu.
² University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
³ Department of Population Medicine, Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
⁴ Department of Pharmacy and Health System Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

J Frank Wharam et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021.

. 2021 Apr 12.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06773-x. Online ahead of print.

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. jwharam@post.harvard.edu.
² University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
³ Department of Population Medicine, Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, 401 Park Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
⁴ Department of Pharmacy and Health System Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: bipolar disorder; health insurance; high-deductible health plans; inequity; out-of-pocket spending.

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