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Paying Physicians to Presribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States

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"Paying Physicians to Presribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States"

As spending on brand-name prescription medications continues to increase, find out the strategies to promote greater prescribing of generics.

Summary Points:

  • Spending on brand-name prescription medications, particularly brand-name biologic drugs, continues to increase.
  • Considerable savings and improvements in medication adherence are possible from greater use of more affordable generic drugs and imminently available follow-on biologics.
  • Strategies to promote greater prescribing of generic drugs and follow-on biologics include traditional information-supplying programs such as formulary decision support and academic detailing and more novel financial incentives.
  • While private insurers, qualified health plans, and employers may legally offer physicians financial incentives to prescribe generic drugs and follow-on biologics, marginally greater risks and a developing evidence base militates against physician payment for therapeutic or noninterchangeable follow-on biologic substitution, and—at this time— for bioequivalent substitution of narrow therapeutic index (NTI) drugs or interchangeable follow-on biologic substitution.
  • Implementation of the various physician-centered strategies to promote greater prescribing of generic drug and follow-on biologics must be accompanied by comparative cost-utility studies assessing patient health outcomes.


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