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Medication Adherence Leads To Lower Health Care Use And Costs Despite Increased Drug Spending

Roebuck, M. Christopher, Liberman, Joshua N., Gemmill-Toyama, Marin, Brennan, Troyen A.·2011·Health Affairs
DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.1087
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Researchers have routinely found that improved medication adherence--getting people to take medicine prescribed for them--is associated with greatly reduced total health care use and costs. But previous studies do not provide strong evidence of a causal link. This article employs a more robust methodology to examine the relationship. Our results indicate that although improved medication adherence by people with four chronic vascular diseases increased pharmacy costs, it also produced substantial medical savings as a result of reductions in hospitalization and emergency department use. Our findings indicate that programs to improve medication adherence are worth consideration by insurers, government payers, and patients, as long as intervention costs do not exceed the estimated health care cost savings.

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Authors
Roebuck, M. C., Liberman, J. N., Gemmill-Toyama, M., & Brennan, T. A.
Venue
Health Affairs
Publisher
Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
Published
2011-01
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
91-99
ISSN
  • 0278-2715 (ISSN-L)
  • 1544-5208
DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.2009.1087
OpenAlex
W2148653627
Cited by
460
References
4
FWCI
28.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed

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Roebuck, M. C., Liberman, J. N., Gemmill-Toyama, M., & Brennan, T. A. (2011). Medication Adherence Leads To Lower Health Care Use And Costs Despite Increased Drug Spending. Health Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2009.1087

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