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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 26.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Feb 3;28(2):w317–w325. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.w317

EXHIBIT 3. Annual Out-Of-Pocket Spending On Prescription Drugs Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries In Part D And Employer-Group Plans, 2006.

EXHIBIT 3

SOURCE: Authors’ calculations using study population as described in the text.

NOTES: Bars labeled 0 months represent the average annual out-of-pocket drug spending among beneficiaries who did not spend $2,250 or more in 2006 ($2,250 is the level of spending at which the so-called doughnut hole is reached). The bars labeled 1 month display the average out-of-pocket drug spending among those whose total drug spending reached $2,250 in December 2006; the bars labeled 2 months, among those whose spending reached $2,250 in November 2006; and so on.