Assessing the impact of a financial incentive and refill reminder program on medication adherence and costs.

Samuel K Peasah¹, Yushi Liu², Shannon Krohe³, Vanessa Campbell⁴, Christopher Lee⁵, Anurati Mathur⁵, Heidi Stevenson², Chronis Manolis⁴, Chester B Good¹

¹UPMC Health Plan, Center for Value-based Pharmacy Initiatives, Pittsburgh, PA.

²UPMC Health Plan, Division of Health Economics, Pittsburgh, PA.

³UPMC Health Plan, Administration and Operations, Pittsburgh, PA.

⁴UPMC Health Plan, Department of Pharmacy Services, Pittsburgh, PA.

⁵Sempre Health, San Francisco, CA.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Improving medication adherence remains an important goal to improve therapeutic outcomes and lower health care costs. Point-of-sale prescription costs and forgetfulness remain top reasons why patients do not adhere to medications. Programs using both text message-based reminders and financial incentives may encourage patients to refill their prescriptions on time by reducing copays thr…

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