Racial and ethnic disparities in benefits eligibility and spending among adults on the autism spectrum: A cohort study using the Medicare Medicaid Linked Enrollees Analytic Data Source

• Teal W. Benevides ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tbenevides@augusta.edu

  Affiliation Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Allied Health Sciences, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1395-2628

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• Henry J. Carretta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1876-352X

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• George Rust,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

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• Lindsay Shea

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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