Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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Insurance Co-payments
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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.
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 Report
An analysis of the differences in the way 10 health insurance plans in Massachusetts covered the medical costs associated with serious diseases.
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.
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 Report
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.