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prescription costs
Prescription costs are a common health care cost for many people and also the source of considerable economic hardship for some. These costs are sometimes referred to as out-of-pocket prescription costs, since for those with insurance, the total cost of their prescriptions may include expenses covered by a third party, such as an insurance company, as well as the individual. Out-of-pocket prescription costs include deductibles, co-payments, and upper limits in coverage.
==United States==
(詳細はPrescription Drug Costs: Background Brief – KaiserEDU.org, Health Policy Education from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation ). Kaiseredu.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-23.〕 Overall, experts estimate that treatment intensification increased by 68% and price inflation increased by 8.3% between 1994 and 2004.
A substantial body of evidence has documented the association between high out-of-pocket costs and many types of economic and non-economic hardship. Between 20%–30% of patients in the United States report having skipped or stretched a prescription medicine during the previous 12 months because of the cost. Other patients report cutting back on payments for their utilities or food in order to afford their prescription medicines. In 2011 and 2012, approximately 2% of individuals reported purchasing prescription drugs from another country to save money. A predictive index has been developed that differentiates individual risk of importing prescription drugs for personal use, thus potentially allowing policymakers to target resource-efficient interventions that minimize the potential risks of importation and improve access to affordable prescription medicines.
Patients may be embarrassed to raise their concerns about the cost of drugs, concerned that doing so may compromise their quality of care, or under the impression that there is nothing that their health care provider can do to help. Providers may also be embarrassed discussing costs, and feel too much time pressure to discuss these costs with patients.
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