The effect of medication cost transparency alerts on prescriber behavior.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study was to determine if medication cost transparency alerts provided at time of prescribing led ambulatory prescribers to reduce their use of low-value medications.

Materials and methods

Provider-level alerts were deployed to ambulatory practices of a single health system from February 2018 through April 2018. Practice sites included 58 primary care and 152 specialty care clinics totaling 1896 attending physicians, residents, and advanced practice nurses throughout western Washington. Prescribers in the randomly assigned intervention arm received a computerized alert whenever they ordered a medication among 4 high-cost medication classes. For each class, a lower cost, equally effective, and safe alternative was available. The primary outcome w

SUBMITTER: Monsen CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647180 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature