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PULSE ANNUAL No. 2
January 2003
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Insurers Turn to Escalating Copays As Cost-Containment Strategy Psychiatric News story - "Copayment increases associated with a three-tier formulary are found to lower total spending on ADHD medications and decrease the probability of their use. Three-tier pharmacy formularies, adopted by many employers and health plans to control costs, appear to be associated with a significant decrease in the probability of using medications to treat children for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Copayment increases associated with the implementation of a three-tier formulary resulted in lower total ADHD medication spending by the employer, sizable increases in out-of-pocket expenditures for families of children with ADHD, and a significant decrease in the probability of using those medications, according to a study in the April Archives of General Psychiatry."
Mental Health Reform Critical to Fixing Medicaid Announcement at the New Democrats Online web site - "At the urging of President Bush, this year Congress will attempt to cut $10 billion from Medicaid. This reduction would have a devastating impact on people with mental illness, the country's leading cause of disability. In "Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System", the new PPI report released today, Art Levine offers a bold reform plan that would make mental health coverage stronger and more cost-effective, while diminishing the financial burden on the country's strained Medicaid system." See also the full report, Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System.![]()