State Medicaid Bears High Cost of Alzheimer's
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)AlzheimerÃs disease patients have substantially higher Medicaid costs than their peers, and such expenses account for over 10 percent of all state Medicaid spending on the elderly, according to a study of the Pennsylvania Medicaid program. The research was presented during the American Academy of NeurologyÃs 51st Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada, April 17 ñ 24, 1999.