The price of pharmaceuticals given managed care health insurance membership.
The results indicate that managed care membership has impacted price trends for pharmaceuticals significantly. There are also implications for changing the status of drugs from prescription only to over-the-counter status.
Brotman
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Department of Economics and Finance, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA.
D016527:Drug Costs / Q000639:trends*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000191:economics; D016568:Drugs, Generic / Q000191:economics; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services; D011243:Preferred Provider Organizations / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014481:United States
D016568:Drugs, Generic