Adult Pharmacy Costs and Characteristics of Very High-Cost Prescription Drug Users in the United States, 2018–2022
This study identified the unique characteristics of very high-cost pharmaceutical users and identified the top conditions and prescription drugs that drove high pharmaceutical expenditures among this population. These findings are essential to understanding rising pharmaceutical costs in the United States and can help identify the issues and solutions of specific cost drivers within our health care policies.
Authors
- Chester B. Good (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4388-4558)
- Duy Do (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-6848)
- Samuel K. Peasah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4991-7392)
- Rina Swart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7786-3117)
- Tiffany Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0032-0608)
- Urvashi Patel
- Jennifer L. Nguyen
Institutions
- UPMC Center for High Value Health Care (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medical Care
- Published
- 2024-08-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/mlr.0000000000002045
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.26