Does prescription drug adherence reduce hospitalizations and costs? The case of diabetes

Abstract

Originality – Most of the drug cost-offset literature focuses only on the impact of cost-sharing and drug spending on cost-offsets, making it impossible to back-out the empirical impact of actual drug adherence on cost-offsets. In this chapter, we estimate the direct impact of adherence on hospitalizations and costs.

Citation

Encinosa, W.E., Bernard, D. and Dor, A. (2010), "Does prescription drug adherence reduce hospitalizations and costs? The case of diabetes", Dor, A. (Ed.) Pharmaceutical Markets and Insurance Worldwide (Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 151-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-2199(2010)0000022010