Restrictive drug formularies may influence physician prescribing behavior for other patients
with more generous drug benefit, so‐called “spillover effects.” We focus on Protonix, a …

Background: Market penetration of HMOs affect physician practice styles for non-HMO
patients. Objective: To study the impact of a restrictive Medicaid drug formulary on …

Background: Multitiered, incentive-based formularies have been increasingly used as a
mechanism to control prescription drug expenditures. Prescribing physicians who manage …

Objectives: To examine the impact of incentive formularies on prescription drug spending
shifts in formulary compliance, use of generic medications, and mail-order fulfillment in the …

OBJECTIVE: To review recent studies comprehensively assessing the impact of incentive-
based multitier formularies on pharmaceutical costs and utilization. DATA SOURCES …

To contain pharmaceutical spending, drug budgets have been introduced across health
systems. Apart from analyzing whether drug budgets fulfill their overall goal of reducing …

Spending on prescription drugs (Rx) represents one of the fastest growing components of
US healthcare spending and has coincided with an expansion of pharmaceutical …

Prescription drug costs are the fastest rising component of health care spending worldwide.
To control drug costs, the Bureau of the National Health Insurance in Taiwan has taken a …

Materials and methods. Longitudinal logistic regression analyses of pharmacy claims from
1998 and 1999 comparing concurrent groups that were or were not exposed to tiered …

OBJECTIVE: To estimate (1) the relative importance of three major attributes of prescription
drug benefit plans level of copayment, pharmacy access, and access to products that health …