First Report Managed Care April 1, 2019
Spending in health care continues to climb: a recent report by the American Medical Association estimated health spending in the United States increased by $3.5 trillion in 2017.
In conversations about avoidable health care spending, discussions inevitably turn to the topic of medication nonadherence, which is an area of medicine that has long needed improvement. In March, OptimizeRx released the results of a survey that found medication nonadherence could be responsible for up to $528 billion in costs as a result of health consequences, illnesses, and deaths from nonoptimized medication regimens.
However, the reasons for medication nonadherence are complicated. In the OptimizeRx survey, 34% of physicians said a patient’s desire to not take pills led to unfulfilled prescriptions, while...
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