Decreasing Prescription Copayments May Make You Healthier
A new study indicates that by decreasing prescription co-payments, increased
adherence to drug therapy results for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes.
adherence to drug therapy results for patients with chronic diseases like diabetes.
This may be self serving but I just had to add this posting because our patients HAVE told us that they have increased their compliance and decreased their complications and sick days.
At Focus Express Mail Pharmacy, we save our patients the 20% Co-Pay that they would normally be responsible for.
In more concrete terms, patients who paid their pharmacy $500.00 for medication in December would have to immediately mail their receipts to their insurance and wait 4-5 weeks to be reimbursed $400.00 (80%) or even less (there are 50%, 60% and 70% plans as well) . Then they would have to add another $100.00 to pay for January's meds. And this cycle goes on each and every month.
Many people cannot afford to lay out the initial $500, let alone the extra $100 they would have to add each month. Therefore they try and and stretch their meds by taking less of a dose, skipping days, cutting test strips in half lengthwise so they could make 2 strips from one (very inaccurate), or even do without their meds totally until they could afford to purchase more.
Obviously, these people are playing games with their health and end up with complications and relapses. But what choice so they have? The best choice is Focus because there's no initial payment, no waiting for reimbursement, no loss of 20% ,and their medication arrives when they need it so they never have to cut corners or miss a dose.
Compliancy increases and complications decrease! And, sick days at work go down!