Pharmacy Use and Costs in Employer-Provided Health Plan Insights for TRICARE Benefit Design from the Private Sector

by Joyce, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780833035493
• ISBN10: 0833035495
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-19
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

Assesses how changing to a three-tiered co-payment system would affect drug costs and pharmacy utilization, in particular for specific high-cost classes of medications.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Background	p. 3
Data sources and methods	p. 13
Analysis results	p. 25
Conclusions and policy implications	p. 41
Relationship between pharmacy costs and age	p. 51
Results of multivariate regressions : aggregate analyses	p. 55
Results of multivariate regressions : class-level analyses	p. 69
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