Physician Strategies to Reduce Patients’ Out-of-pocket Prescription Costs
Open Access
- 28 March 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 165 (6) , 633-636
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.6.633
Abstract
Out-of-pocket costs account for approximately one fifth of health expenditures and have increased markedly during the past decades.1,2 These costs have been the focus of considerable public concern, most recently surrounding the Medicare prescription drug benefit.3 Numerous studies suggest that high out-of-pocket costs may lead to cost-related medication nonadherence4 and otherwise threaten quality of care.5-7This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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