Expenditures for prescription drugs: too much or not enough?

Healthc Financ Manage. 2003 Oct;57(10):34-8, 41.

Abstract

With insurance, consumers generally do not have a financial incentive to reduce or contain prescription drug use. Drug spending can be controlled by: Understanding the sources of drug cost Improving use of drug formularies Using clinical pharmacists to improve prescribing behavior.

MeSH terms

  • Cost Control
  • Drug Costs / statistics & numerical data
  • Drug Costs / trends*
  • Drug Prescriptions / economics*
  • Drug Utilization / economics
  • Drug Utilization / trends
  • Health Expenditures / statistics & numerical data
  • Health Expenditures / trends
  • Humans
  • Inflation, Economic
  • United States