Unsustainable growth in healthcare expenditure demands effective cost-containment
policies. We review policy effectiveness using total payer expenditure as primary outcome …

ContextPrescription drugs are instrumental to managing and preventing chronic disease.
Recent changes in US prescription drug cost sharing could affect access to them …

Building resilient health systems: a proposal for a resilience index Page 1 Building resilient
health systems: a proposal for a resilience index Health system resilience begins with …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

Abstract In the United States, two patients with the same medical condition can receive
drastically different treatments. In addition, the same patient can walk into two physicians' …

ContextMany health plans have instituted more cost sharing to discourage use of more
expensive pharmaceuticals and to reduce drug spending. ObjectiveTo determine how …

This study reviews health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades
and their impact on the following policy goals: ensuring access to services; improving the …

Background A large proportion of Americans are enrolled in 3-tier pharmacy benefit plans.
We studied whether patients enrolled in such plans who receive generic or preferred brand …

OBJECTIVES: To compare statin nonadherence and discontinuation rates of primary and
secondary prevention populations and to identify factors that may affect those suboptimal …

Background Little information exists about the consequences of limits on prescription-drug
benefits for Medicare beneficiaries. Methods We compared the clinical and economic …