Drug Adherence Throwdown: Analyzing America's Other Drug Problem

Disruptive Women in Health Care
October 18, 2009

A new report, Thinking Outside the Pillbox: A System-wide Approach to Improving Patient Medication Adherence for Chronic Disease, issued by the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI) found that patients who do not take their medications as prescribed pay a price in poorer health, more frequent hospitalizations and a higher risk of death.

Collectively, noncompliant patients incur up to $290 billion annually in increased medical costs–that’s $290 billion in avoidable medical spending every year, according to the NEHI report.

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