OBJECTIVES As the Target Project of Tuscany Region is aimed to identify significant changes occurring during the time of the project compared to the previous years, we have analyzed antifracture drugs consumption in the years immediately preceding the start-up of the program. METHODS We have analyzed the regional administrative database to search for antifracture drugs delivered by the region...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim is to explore whether prescription drug expenditures by enrollees changed in Alabama's CHIP program, ALL Kids, after copayment increases in fiscal year 2004. The subsidiary aim is to explore whether non-pharmaceutical expenditures also changed. DATA SOURCES Data on ALL Kids enrollees between 1999-2007, obtained from claims files and the state's administrative databas...

PRIVATE CONSUMER expenditures for medical care amounted to an estimated $23.7 billion in 1963 or 7.3 percent more than in 1962. Thus, total consumer expenditures for health purposes are continuing to expand at about the same pace as in recent years. In 1962 the increase from the preceding year was 7.6 percent; in 1961, it was 5.4 percent, ; and in 1960, 6.7 percent. Private consumer expenditure...

disease are much less likely than men with HIV to receive potentially lifeprolonging drugs even though they have private health insurance that would help pay for the drugs, according to a recent study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Fred J. Hellinger, Ph.D., and William E. Encinosa, Ph.D., of AHRQ’s Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, found that only 39 percent ...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to give a review of the complex system of budgetary constraints to which the French health-care system has been committed since 1996 and to evaluate the consequences on drug policy and on efficient use of pharmaceuticals. METHODS Literature review, legal texts analysis, and interviews with policy makers and companies managers were performed. RESU...