coinsurance. For patients affected by the policy, we find that the likelihood of purchasing a 20% coinsurance drug decreases by 4 …. Patients have little incentive to shop for low-priced alternatives because they do not bear the full cost of their health care …, Switzerland introduced out-of-pocket price differentiation. As of July 1st 2011, substitutable pharmaceuticals with prices above a …

approval in relation to the perceived need for earlier access to new therapies for critically ill patients. Much less in the … news, but lurking behind both problems, is the need for better information for physicians and patients to use in making … pharmaceutical benefits plans. This article proposes an approach to both accelerated access and drug prices that would generate the …

delivered via text message to over 650,000 Walmart pharmacy patients in the fall of 2020 and encouraged patients to visit … tone of typical pharmacy communications and reminded patients that a flu shot was waiting for them. These insights suggest …

by oncology drug shortages, strategies for responding to shortages, and the effects of shortages on costs, patient safety …, and outcomes.Results. Ninety-eight percent of the 358 survey respondents reported at least one drug shortage during the … previous 12 months, with 70% reporting instances of an inadequate supply to treat patients and 63% reporting that their …

improve when patients become more compliant to drug therapy. At the same time, we are able to infer valuable information on … rates - using a large panel of patients residing in a local health authority in Italy. These data allow us to follow … individual patients through all their accesses to public health care services until they either die or leave the local health …

substitution probability. Based on 540,000 drug purchases by 60,000 patients we find that the probability of switching to a generic … substantially depend on whether patients face a copayment for their drug purchase and thus personally financially benefit from … information directly to patients on their purchasing-decisions regarding pharmaceutical drugs. We analyze the effect of …