Managed Care
Over Half of Physicians Prefer Two Drugs in a Single Pill Combination for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, May 14th, 2007
Decision Resources, Inc., one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that 56% of primary care physicians and 53% of cardiologists said they would like more than 2 drugs in a single pill combination, according to the new report entitled Combination Cardiovascular Drugs: A Survey of PCPs, Cardiologists, and MCO Pharmacy Directors. When triple-drug single pill combinations were considered, physicians desired the combination of ACEI, beta blocker, and statin.
The report also finds that managed care organization pharmacy directors will relegate Novartis's Norvasc and Diovan combination, Exforge, to tier 3 of their...
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