Helping Primary Care Physicians Lower Pharmaceutical Expenses: An Academic Medical Center’s Experience
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• Objective: To address steadily rising pharmaceutical expenses under global capitation, our physicianhospital organization (PHO) implemented a drug substitution program that supports primary care physicians (PCPs) in making prescription changes. • Program description: PCPs review pharmaceutical claims data, approve standard changes to more cost-effective alternative medications with lower patient copayments, and sign computer-generated prescriptions and letters to patients. The program was designed to enhance the effectiveness of the insurers’ simultaneous increase in copayment for expensive brand medications. We focused on medications used chronically: cholesterol-lowering agents, nonsedating antihistamines, and oral
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