First Report Managed Care March 20, 2019
OptimizeRx Corp, a pharmaceutical-oriented, digital health messaging platform published results from their latest survey that focused on prescription drug costs, physician perspectives on the affordability of prescription drugs, and patient adherence to prescription regimens.
“According to a recent study, lack of medication adherence costs the US health system as much as $528 billion in the context of possible consequences, illnesses, and deaths that result from non-optimized medication therapy,” said report partner, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MHSA, health economist, THINK-Health LLC. “Patients are at-risk of contributing to this public health challenge when they avoid filling prescriptions. There are strategies that can help to risk-manage this in order to lower care costs and improve peoples’ outcomes. We need to address this through an ecosystem-wide,...
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