Change in Default Prescription Length and Statin Prescribing Behavior
JAMA Internal Medicine
Authors
Mili Mehta, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Corinne M. Rhodes, Aria Xiong, Christopher K. Snider, E. Madeline Grenader, Michael O. Harhay, Nune Mehrabyan, Maryanne K. Peifer, Kevin G. M. Volpp, M. Kit Delgado
Providing patients with 90-day supplies of their medications (rather than shorter durations) has been shown to increase medication adherence and reduce cardiovascular mortality.
In this study, a simple default change not only led to 20 percentage point overall improvement, but also reduced disparities.
in this study alone, for this one class of medications, changing the default to 90-day supplies meant 57,000 less trips to the pharmacy for patients.