ContextPrescription drugs are instrumental to managing and preventing chronic disease.
Recent changes in US prescription drug cost sharing could affect access to them …

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Background A large proportion of Americans are enrolled in 3-tier pharmacy benefit plans.
We studied whether patients enrolled in such plans who receive generic or preferred brand …

Objectives: To determine whether patients respond to increased cost sharing by substituting
less expensive alternatives for medications with higher levels of copayments or coinsurance …

As pharmaceutical expenditure continues to rise, third-party payers in most high-income
countries have increasingly shifted the burden of payment for prescription drugs to patients …

Background Managed care organizations use a variety of strategies to reduce the cost and
improve the quality of medication use. The effectiveness of such policies is not well …

Background Growing expenditures on prescription medicines represent a major challenge
to many health systems. Cap and co‐payment policies are intended as an incentive to deter …

In response to rising health spending, public and private insurers use two mechanisms to
direct spending toward more valuable treatments:“demand-side” incentives, which impose …

Background Expenditures for medications used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) in children have increased rapidly. Many employers and health plans have …

Objectives. To assess the impact of multitiered copayments on the cost and use of
prescription drugs among Medicare beneficiaries. Data Sources. Marketscan 2002 Medicare …