PRESCRIPTION PRICE TRANSPARENCY AND THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Analytics, Improving the Patient Experience, Transparency & Value
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Transparency and Value
Explore how these two key aspects driving a modern, connected healthcare system are being implemented on the ground. -
Analytics
Examine how healthcare data can provide insight across claims, cost, clinical, and more. -
Improving the Patient Experience
Improving the whole patient journey to ensure a positive patient experience, from clinical and administrative, to financial, and everything in between.
PRESCRIPTION PRICE TRANSPARENCY AND THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
PRESCRIPTION PRICE TRANSPARENCY AND THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE
As stories about sticker shock and the cost of care dominate headlines and policy discussions, healthcare organizations are looking for cost-effective ways to improve patient outcomes and experience. Prescription price transparency tools hold particular promise. We already know that providers want greater price transparency for their patients. In fact, 74% of U.S. physicians say they want to see a patient’s medical benefit information before prescribing, and 59% want to compare the cost of similar medications.
Are patients equally eager to talk medication costs and coverage at the point of care? Surescripts commissioned a survey of 1,001 U.S. patients to understand their prescription challenges, desires and behavior—and how their experience with their prescriptions affects the healthcare decisions they make.
The full Surescripts report can be viewed at this link.