title: An employer coalition to reduce costs and improve adherence.
abstract: A coalition of employers based in Ohio is addressing statin utilization on multiple fronts. By working through a new pharmacy benefits manager, it reduced its costs for statins by 9 percent over the course of one year, chiefly by replacing a relatively high-cost statin with a lower-cost statin believed to be of similar efficacy. The coalition also has worked on an individual basis with high prescribers of a high-cost statin, requesting them to consider a lower-cost statin. That effort also has met with success. Meanwhile, the coalition has launched a mail-based program intended to improve adherence among patients taking statins.
authors.affiliation: Employers Health Purchasing Corporation of Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: C V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Goff
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection; D019468:Disease Management; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000191:economics*; D009820:Ohio; D010349:Patient Compliance
chemical_list: D019161:Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors