Managed Care
New managed care study findings have been reported by scientists at Harvard University, Department of Health
Published in Physician Business Week, July 17th, 2007
Fresh data on managed care are presented in the report "The effects of copayments on medication adherence during the first two years of prescription drug treatment." According to recent research from the United States, "The aim of this study was to examine effects of initial prescription copayment size and observed increase on adherence by analyzing data from a managed care database. Medical-pharmacy claims data were abstracted from the Integrated Health Care Information Services (IHCIS) National Managed Care Benchmark database for primary employer-sponsored subscribers."
"Incident fills and refills for the 10 most common medication groups between 2001 and 2003 were...
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