In-Home Care Versus More Hospital Visits
A paper examining the economic price of cost-sharing with patients. The paper shows that normal economic reactions to cost-sharing don’t conform to economic models, and that high-risk patients are the ones most likely to stop taking a drug with a high value. They’ve even got a number for the price of cost-sharing - $11,321 per life year.
The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing
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