Impacts of a Physician-targeted Price Transparency Tool on Medication Out-of-pocket Costs

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

21401 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-11-18

Study Completion Date

2021-07-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this study is to evaluate whether presenting patient out-of-pocket cost information to the provider at the time of prescribing leads to orders for medications with lower out-of-pocket costs. The Real-Time Prescription Benefits (RTPB) tool has been implemented to randomly selected providers across NYU Langone Health's outpatient physician practices. The RTPB tool provides physicians with information about patient out-of-pocket (OOP) cost for medications at the point of outpatient prescribing. OOP is inclusive of any copay, coinsurance, and deductible that the patient owes given their prescription drug benefit plan. If the physician is submitting a prescription order and a clinically-appropriate alternative with a lower OOP cost is available, an alert with OOP cost information for the drug being initially ordered as well as up to three lower-cost alternatives will be displayed. Implementation of this tool will be analyzed to see if it will lead to reduced out-of-pocket costs on ordered medications when alternatives were available. Because effects could vary along many dimensions (e.g., specialty, drug class, insurance type), secondary analyses will be conducted and stratified along such dimensions. Analyses will be conducted at the prescription order level.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Prescriptions Costs and Cost Analysis

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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See alert

The intervention group refers to medication orders placed by prescribers when practicing in an outpatient department randomly assigned to receive the intervention, which is implementation of the RTPB tool.

Real-time benefits check

Intervention Type OTHER

Prescribers practicing in outpatient departments assigned to the intervention arm will be shown popup alerts with their patient's insurance benefit design-specific out-of-pocket cost for the drug being ordered as well as out-of-pocket costs for up to 3 lower-cost alternatives if available. Alternatives will only be shown when available and when the patient and his or her benefit design information can be matched by the electronic health record system to accurately query out-of-pocket cost information.

Do not see alert

The non intervention group refers to medication orders placed by prescribers when practicing in an outpatient department randomly selected to not receive the intervention.

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Real-time benefits check

Prescribers practicing in outpatient departments assigned to the intervention arm will be shown popup alerts with their patient's insurance benefit design-specific out-of-pocket cost for the drug being ordered as well as out-of-pocket costs for up to 3 lower-cost alternatives if available. Alternatives will only be shown when available and when the patient and his or her benefit design information can be matched by the electronic health record system to accurately query out-of-pocket cost information.

Intervention Type OTHER