In this podcast, Tim Lash talks about the trends of drug pricing and how the price of drugs may contribute to medication nonadherence in the Medicare population.
Additional Resource:
- New study predicts more than 1.1 million deaths among medicare recipients due to the inability to afford their medications. News release. West Health. November 19, 2020. Accessed December 14, 2020. https://www.westhealth.org/press-release/study-predicts-1-million-deaths-due-to-high-cost-prescription-drugs/
Timothy A. Lash, MBA, is chief strategy officer and executive vice president at West Health, and president of the West Health Policy Center in Washington, DC.