Increasing Time Costs and Copayments for Prescription Drugs
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A decrease in prescription length and an increase in brand-name co-payment decreased medication adherence in North Carolina.
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As Co-Payments Rise, Participation in Treatment Falls and More Substance Abusers Relapse
December 16, 2005 | Program Result
Between August 1999 and January 2002, Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Ph.D., and researchers at Northwestern University analyzed the extent to which co-payments for substance abuse treatment influenced people's utilization of treatment services.
Copayment Reductions Generate Greater Medication Adherence in Targeted Patients
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A large value-based insurance design program offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina eliminated generic medication copayments and reduced copayments for brand-name medications.
Medication Adherence Changes Following Value-Based Insurance Design
May 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Value-based insurance design bases cost sharing on a medication's clinical value, not its price. This study shows the effectiveness of value-based insurance design.
Research Finds Out-of-Pocket Costs Varied Greatly Among 10 Health Insurance Plans
September 28, 2012 | Program Result
An analysis of the differences in the way 10 health insurance plans in Massachusetts covered the medical costs associated with serious diseases.
Cost Sharing and the ACA
October 11, 2011 | Video
This short infographic video explains what cost sharing is and how it changes under health reform.
Full-Coverage, Smoking-Cessation Programs Can Help More Smokers Quit
May 31, 2000 | Program Result
The Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, assessed the impact of different insurance coverage structures on the utilization and cost effectiveness of smoking-cessation services in a health maintenance organization.
Assessing the Evidence for Value-Based Insurance Design
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
High copayments for medical services can cause patients to underuse essential therapies.
Health Care Consumers May be Paying More but Getting Less
February 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy held a discussion on the growing interest in more affordable but less comprehensive health care benefit, plans as a means to maintaining or expanding affordable coverage, and possible policy changes.
Physicians Among the Chief Drivers of High Drug Costs
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
During the 1980s, expenditures on pharmaceuticals nationwide increased by 152 percent. HMOs implemented a number of cost-control mechanisms to slow the rate of growth of pharmaceutical expenditures, and were successful in doing so compared to fee-for-service health plans.