Factors Associated With Manufacturer Drug Coupon Use at US Pharmacies.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Drug companies offer coupons to lower the out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, yet little is known about why they do so for some drugs but not for others.

Objective

To examine whether the following factors are associated with manufacturer drug coupon use: (1) patient-cost characteristics (mean per-patient cost per drug, mean patient copay); (2) drug characteristics (generics availability or "later-in-class-entrant" drugs); (3) drug-class characteristics (in-class coupon use among competitors; in-class generic competition; in-class mean cost and copay).

Design setting and participants

This was a retrospective cohort analysis of anonymized transactional pharmacy claims sourced from retail US pharmacies from October 2017 to September 2019, supplemented

SUBMITTER: Kang SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796883 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature