Forefront: A bridge credit program can protect against financial shocks
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Thursday, April 14, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs
Dear John,
A new Health Affairs article examines how drug costs limit use, even for
people with health insurance.
Medicare Drug Affordability
In this month's issue of Health Affairs, Stacie Dusetzina and coauthors
dive into debates around drug pricing
-specifically
how the health benefits of drugs are limited due to barriers of
affordability, often even for people with health insurance.
Examining electronic health records of Medicare Part D enrollees in
eleven health care systems around the country, they find that almost
thirty percent of enrollees who were prescribed a high-cost cancer drug
did not fill the prescription within ninety days.
"Despite their higher incomes and assets, beneficiaries without
low-income subsidies more frequently failed to initiate treatment as
prescribed than those with low-income subsidies," according to
Dusetzina and coauthors.
"That differential is likely due to the stark difference in expected
out-of-pocket expense for treatment among those with versus without a
low-income subsidy."
Dusetzina dives deeper into her paper with Health Affairs
Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil on this week's episode of A Health Podyssey
.
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
In Health Affairs Forefront, John-Pierre Cardenas argues a bridge credit
program is an opportunity for states to future-proof the individual
market from macroeconomic financial shocks
.
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