{"id":629633,"date":"2023-04-15T18:49:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/helping-patients-in-need-physician-partner-program-can-save-americans-up-to-90-on-prescription-drugs\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T18:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:49:27","slug":"helping-patients-in-need-physician-partner-program-can-save-americans-up-to-90-on-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/helping-patients-in-need-physician-partner-program-can-save-americans-up-to-90-on-prescription-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping patients in need: Physician partner program can save Americans up to 90% on prescription drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that drug prices in the U.S. are significantly higher than in other countries. About a quarter of U.S. adults <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/issue-brief\/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-omnilocation=\"articlebody\" data-omnilink=\"editorial-link\" rel=\"noopener\">surveyed last year<\/a> by the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll reported not filling a prescription, taking a partial dose, or skipping doses altogether because of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe see patients who can\u2019t take the full dose. They cut their pills in half. They skip doses,\u201d shared David Mitchell of the nonprofit organization, Patients for Affordable Drugs, during a Commonwealth Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/publications\/other-publication\/2017\/oct\/why-are-us-prescription-drug-prices-so-high\" target=\"_blank\" data-omnilocation=\"articlebody\" data-omnilink=\"editorial-link\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast on the high cost of U.S. drugs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nA 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR2956.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-omnilocation=\"articlebody\" data-omnilink=\"editorial-link\" rel=\"noopener\">RAND report<\/a> found prescription prices in the U.S. to be more than 250% higher than those in 32 comparison countries. A <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/article-abstract\/2545691\" target=\"_blank\" data-omnilocation=\"articlebody\" data-omnilink=\"editorial-link\" rel=\"noopener\">JAMA review<\/a> determined the main factor for this price discrepancy to be market exclusivity, with 72% of the money spent on prescriptions going toward brand-name drugs, which make up just 10% of dispensed medications.<\/p>\n<p>\nU.S. drugmakers typically retain patents and market exclusivity for an average of 12.5 years after FDA approval and often longer by tweaking a formulary and delaying the drug patent\u2019s expiration.<\/p>\n<p>\nFor these reasons, thousands of Americans cross the northern border into Canada every year to fill their prescriptions at a significantly lower cost than U.S. medications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernhealthcare.com\/patient-care\/helping-patients-need-physician-partner-program-can-save-americans-up-90-prescription\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Arden Roberie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that drug prices in the U.S. are significantly higher than in other countries. About a quarter of U.S. adults surveyed last year by the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll reported not filling a prescription, taking a partial dose, or skipping doses altogether because of the cost. \u201cWe see patients who can\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4336,24786],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-helping","8":"category-patients"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}