Introduction With an increase in prescription drug spending and rising drug costs there is a
need to encourage the use of generic prescription drugs. However, maximizing generic drug …

Background Prescription drugs contribute to increased healthcare expenditures in the
United States (US). Use of generic drugs has been recognized as an effective tool to control …

Background/Aim of the Study The study aimed to determine the cost impacts of antiretroviral
drugs by analysing a long-term follow-up of direct costs for combined antiretroviral therapy …

The private health plans that administer the Medicare drug benefit use various tools to
encourage the use of generic drugs in order to lower total drug spending. Higher generic …

BACKGROUND: For many years, community pharmacies provided mail delivery as a
convenience for a small segment of special circumstance patients who requested it. Fueled …

Objective To determine revealed pharmacy preference and predictors among patients
enrolled in a pharmacy benefit that offered a 90-day supply of prescriptions via mail service …

Objectives To identify socioeconomic factors associated with mail-service pharmacy use and
compare the differences in disease-specific prescription medication and medical utilization …

Prescription Abandonment: Another Path to Medication Nonadherence | Annals of Internal
Medicine Advertisement ACP Online Annals of Internal Medicine Annals of Internal …

Although community pharmacies have been the mainstay for drug distribution in the USA,
plan members are encouraged to use mail‐order pharmacies as a cost‐containment …

Objective The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the M-DRAW
tool and to examine its applicability and utility at a primary clinic setting in patients with …