Increased Copays for high priced drugs
Consumers are starting to pay a larger share for high priced drugs. According to the N.Y. Times (“Co-payments“), insurance companies “…are charging patients a percentage of the cost of certain...
View ArticleDoes Free Health Insurance increase the poor’s access to medical care?
As mentioned in previous posts, most health insurance in the France public health care system involves significant copayments. While this helps to reduce the moral hazard problem, it may prevent poor...
View ArticleDo higher copayments decrease health care costs?
Merrill Goozner of GoozNews writes the following: The share of health care costs borne by individuals has remained fairly steady over the past several decades, and that is the prime argument behind...
View ArticleMedPAC’s Home Health Recommendations
In their latest 2011, MedPAC made four recommendations to alter payment policy in the home health setting. These include the following: The Secretary, with the Office of Inspector General, should...
View ArticleWhat most reduces adherence: increasing copayments or decreasing prescription...
According to this article, the answer is: “Both policies decreased medication adherence. The days’ supply policy [decreasing the days supply of each prescription from 100 to 34 days] had a much larger...
View ArticleDonuts and drugs
Medicare patients are likely to discontinue their medication in December. Why? Are they busy with the Christmas holidays? Do they have additional expenses for gifts and limited funds for prescription...
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