نتایج جستجو برای: drug expenditures
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BACKGROUND Rational use of medicines remains to be one of the most challenging problems in health systems worldwide [1, 2]. ABC/VEN-analysis has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO) and has been used in health care practice globally since 1981. It represents the simple and effective method of analysis of medicine expenditures, identifying priority groups of medicines,...
Medicaid's drug expenditures have grown at double-digit inflation rates since 2000. These prescription drug costs are important contributors to increasing health care costs for disabled persons. In spite of this knowledge, little has been reported about specific patterns of medication use among disabled enrollees. We analyzed Kansas Medicaid data to describe trends in medication use patterns ac...
One of the major directions of health policy is the attempt to contain expenditures on pharmaceuticals by encouraging substitution of generic for brand name drug products. Yet, a major marketing survey of prescribing and dispensing patterns in California in 1977 found relatively little drug substitution occurring, and in fact substitution of more expensive products occurred more frequently than...
Boston University Professor Richard Laing has described the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) as ‘the best drug pricing system in the world ... [and Australia as] the one country which seems to have got it right, that what you want to do in controlling costs is to pay what the drug is therapeutically worth’(Laing 2001). At a time when many countries are struggling with rising phar...
In this article, the effects of prescription drug coverage on use are analyzed for beneficiaries of a large retiree health benefit fund in a quasi-experiment comparing new and established enrollees. Newer enrollees show an 18-percentage point greater increase in prescription drug expenditures per capita than established enrollees during the 3-year period following enrollment. This differential ...
Financial Burdens of Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures under High-Deductible Health Plans
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