Nonlinear pricing in drug benefits and medication use: the case of statin compliance in Medicare Part D.
Nonlinear pricing in drug benefits and medication use: the case of statin compliance in Medicare Part D.
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药物福利和药物使用的非线性定价:医疗保险 D 部分中他汀类药物合规性的案例。
作者:
Kyoungrae Jung;R. Feldman;A. McBean
OBJECTIVE
To examine how enrollees' statin compliance responds to expected prices in Medicare Part D, which features a nonlinear price schedule due to a coverage gap.
DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING
Prescription Drug Event data for a 5 percent random sample of Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan enrollees in 2008 who did not receive a low-income subsidy.
STUDY DESIGN
We analyze statin compliance prior to the coverage gap, where the "effective price" is higher than the actual copayment for drugs because consumers anticipate that more spending will make them more likely to reach the gap. We construct each enrollee's effective price as her expected price at the end of the year, which is the weighted average between pre-gap and in-gap copayments with the weight being the predicted probability of hitting the gap. Compliance is defined as at least 80 percent of days covered.
PRINCIPAL FINDINGS
Part D enrollees' pre-gap statin compliance decreases by 3.7-4.7 percentage points for a $10 increase in the effective price.
CONCLUSION
The presence of a coverage gap decreases statin compliance prior to the gap, suggesting that incorporating expected future prices is important to assess the full impact of cost sharing on drug compliance under nonlinear price schedules.
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