Becker's Hospital Review: Prescription drug price transparency and its visible impact on medication adherence A health plan's community engagement campaign to educate patients to take their medications as directed ties into a strong popular theme to influence patients' prescription adherence rates. Eight ... The importance of improving medication adherence came into sharp relief last week as IMS and Medicare released new U.S.

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prescription spending data. In the midst of the seismic shift in how Medicare ... McKnight's Long-Term Care News: Program boosts pain management prescription adherence before hip surgery, study finds The American Journal of Managed Care: Dry Eye Treatment Gaps Persist, Whereas Comorbid DED Does Not Affect Glaucoma Adherence Claims from 192,793 newly diagnosed dry eye disease patients showed prescription initiation in 12.4%, indicating substantial reliance on nonprescription management and/or under-treatment in Medicare ... Dry Eye Treatment Gaps Persist, Whereas Comorbid DED Does Not Affect Glaucoma Adherence According to a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine, 20 to 30 percent of medication prescriptions are never filled, and approximately 50 percent of medications for chronic disease are not taken ...

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