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Following Doctor's Orders on Medicine Can Save Patients Thousands of Dollars, Prevent Hospital Stays
Not taking medicines as prescribed can hurt a patient's wallet as well as their health and far outweigh any savings on the pharmacy bill.
Not filling prescriptions and even skipping doses can result in serious complications and lead to ER visits and hospital stays, even premature death.
Patients not taking medicine as prescribed cost the U.S. healthcare system roughly $290 billion a year in extra treatment and related costs, research shows. One study estimated those patients pay about $2,000 a year in extra out-of-pocket medical costs.
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Sources: Chicago Tribune; Associated Press
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April 15th 2025Using commercial insurance claims data and the US launch of tirzepatide as their dividing point, John Ostrominski, MD, Harvard Medical School, and his team studied trends in the use of both glucose-lowering and weight-lowering medications, comparing outcomes between adults with and without type 2 diabetes.
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FDA Greenlights Dupilumab for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria, Marking First Approval in a Decade
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