Monthly Archives: April 2012

Join the Adherence Conversation

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: April 6, 2012
Medication adherence is an ongoing and serious problem; according to the Center for Health Transformation, the annual cost of patients not taking their medicines as prescribed is nearly $300 billion, with approximately 125,000 patients dying each year due to poor adherence—that’s 342 people every day. Improving adherence rates in the United States has been a [...]
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Obamacare's Effect on Drug Spending

By Ben Comer | Published: April 4, 2012
Provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) drove out-of-pocket costs down, while increasing drug spending among 19 to 25-year-olds in 2011, according to research published on Wednesday. The decline observed in overall out-of-pocket spending last year was the “first on record,” and was “largely related to the introduction of the ‘donut-hole’ subsidy for Medicare Part D [...]
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Cleveland Clinic Backs Quiz to Keep Docs Sharp

By Ben Comer | Published: April 2, 2012
By challenging physicians to be The SmartestDoc, MDLinx and the Cleveland Clinic are using competition to promote education. On Tuesday, M3 USA’s MDLinx, a pharma advertising supported informational website for physicians, launched a new quiz – The SmartestDoc – for internal medicine and family physicians. In collaboration with MDLinx, the Cleveland Clinic is providing [...]
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