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At the Rockville, MD-based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) 2008 annual conference, Jessica S. Banthin, PhD, director of AHRQ's division of modeling and simulation in the center for financing, access and cost trends, was one of the presenters of a paper on "Prescription Drug Expenditures and Healthcare Burdens in the Medicaid Population." Dr. Banthin says this research still is a work in progress.

Out-of-pocket expenses for prescriptions surprisingly high