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Rita Hui
Researcher at Kaiser Permanente
Publications - 6
Citations - 560
Rita Hui is an academic researcher from Kaiser Permanente. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicare Part D & Medicare Advantage. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 545 citations.
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Unintended Consequences of Caps on Medicare Drug Benefits
John Hsu,Mary Price,Jie Huang,Richard J. Brand,Vicki Fung,Rita Hui,Bruce Fireman,Joseph P. Newhouse,Joseph V. Selby +8 more
TL;DR: In patients with chronic disease, the cap on drug benefits was associated with poorer adherence to drug therapy and poorer control of blood pressure, lipid levels, and glucose levels.
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Medicare beneficiaries' knowledge of Part D prescription drug program benefits and responses to drug costs.
John Hsu,Vicki Fung,Mary Price,Jie Huang,Richard J. Brand,Rita Hui,Bruce Fireman,Joseph P. Newhouse +7 more
TL;DR: Beneficiaries in this Medicare Advantage plan have limited knowledge of Part D cost sharing and often report behavioral responses to drug costs, associated with fewer reports of cost responses overall, but more reports of financial burden.
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Distributing $800 Billion: An Early Assessment Of Medicare Part D Risk Adjustment
John Hsu,Jie Huang,Vicki Fung,Mary Price,Richard J. Brand,Rita Hui,Bruce Fireman,William H. Dow,John Bertko,Joseph P. Newhouse +9 more
TL;DR: This work evaluated the performance of multiple approaches for predicting 2006 Part D drug costs and plan liability and found that combining RxHCCs with individual-level information on prior-year drug use greatly improves performance and decreases incentives for plans to select against bad risks.
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Fixing Flaws In Medicare Drug Coverage That Prompt Insurers To Avoid Low-Income Patients
John Hsu,Vicki Fung,Jie Huang,Mary Price,Richard J. Brand,Rita Hui,Bruce Fireman,William H. Dow,John Bertko,Joseph P. Newhouse +9 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that improving the accuracy of Medicare's risk and subsidy adjustments could mitigate perverse incentives for plans to avoid serving the low-income segment of the Medicare Part D program.
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Adverse clinical events among medicare beneficiaries using antipsychotic drugs: linking health insurance benefits and clinical needs.
Vicki Fung,Mary Price,Alisa B. Busch,Mary Beth Landrum,Bruce Fireman,Andrew A. Nierenberg,William H. Dow,Rita Hui,Richard G. Frank,Joseph P. Newhouse,John Hsu +10 more
TL;DR: There is evidence of interruptions in antipsychotic use attributable to Part D cost-sharing, and adverse events increased among beneficiaries with approved indications for use, but not among beneficiaries without such indications.