What The Study Did: An economic evaluation of 3.3 million drug insurance claims looked at whether implementing reference pricing was associated with physicians and patients adjusting to using the least expensive alternative within a drug class.
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Authors: James C. Robinson, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, is the corresponding author.
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