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  • Health economics
  • Public health
  • Pharmacoeconomics

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  • Medication adherence impacts healthcare utilization and costs, but population-level estimates are scarce.
  • Understanding nonadherence is crucial for managing chronic conditions and healthcare spending.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To estimate the population-level impact of medication nonadherence among Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions.
  • To quantify avoidable healthcare utilization and expenditures linked to nonadherence.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims data for a large sample of beneficiaries (N=14,657,735) in 2013.
  • Calculated nonadherence prevalence for diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
  • Applied prior estimates of avoidable costs and utilization, adjusted for healthy adherer effects, to nonadherent populations.

Main Results:

  • Medication nonadherence incurs billions in Medicare FFS expenditures and millions of hospital days.
  • Nonadherence for hypertension alone could cost Medicare $13.7 billion annually, with over 100,000 ED visits and 7 million inpatient days averted if adherence improved.

Conclusions:

  • Medication nonadherence represents a significant financial and resource burden on the Medicare FFS program.
  • Findings offer actionable insights for policymakers developing chronic disease management programs.
  • Caution is advised when extrapolating findings beyond the Medicare FFS population or summing across disease groups.