Brand Medications and Medicare Part D: How Eye Care Providers' Prescribing Patterns Influence Costs.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To quantify costs of eye care providers' Medicare Part D prescribing patterns for ophthalmic medications and to estimate the potential savings of generic or therapeutic drug substitutions and price negotiation.

Design

Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Participants

Eye care providers prescribing medications through Medicare Part D in 2013.

Methods

Medicare Part D 2013 prescriber public use file and summary file were used to calculate medication costs by physician specialty and drug. Savings from generic or therapeutic drug substitutions were estimated for brand drugs. The potential savings from price negotiation was estimated using drug prices negotiated by the United States Veterans Administration (USVA).

Main outcome measures

Total cost of br

SUBMITTER: Newman-Casey PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5732892 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature