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  • August 2024
  • Article

How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Kate Ho and Edward Kong
Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by... View Details
Keywords: Prescription Drugs; Coupons; Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Price; Spending; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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Dafny, Leemore S., Kate Ho, and Edward Kong. "How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16, no. 3 (August 2024): 314–346.

    How Do Drug Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?

    Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by... View Details
    • 25 Sep 2017
    • News

    When a Drug Coupon Helps You but Hurts Fellow Citizens

    • 14 Nov 2019
    • Video

    Health Minute: The Real Impact of Coupons on Drug Pricing

    • Article

    Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, Christopher Ody and Matt Schmitt
    The analogy between value-based purchasing in pharmaceuticals and the new frontier of alternative payment models for health care providers is relatively straightforward. Insurers are increasingly demanding steep discounts from providers in exchange for inclusion in... View Details
    Keywords: Drug Copayment Coupons; Prescription Drug Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost; Policy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt Schmitt. "Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry." New England Journal of Medicine 375, no. 21 (November 24, 2016): 2013–2015.
    • 14 Sep 2017
    • News

    Insurers cutting back on drug coupons amid concerns over consumer costs

    • 13 Oct 2016
    • News

    Study shows coupons lead to big profits for drugmakers

    • May 2017
    • Article

    When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, Christopher Ody and Matt Schmitt
    Branded pharmaceutical manufacturers frequently offer “copay coupons” that insulate consumers from cost sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing generic entry... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Insurance Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt Schmitt. "When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9, no. 2 (May 2017): 91–123.

      When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization

      Branded pharmaceutical manufacturers frequently offer “copay coupons” that insulate consumers from cost-sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing generic entry... View Details
      • 19 Mar 2018
      • News

      Those coupons people use for expensive meds are starting to count for less

      • 10 Oct 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: First Look: October 10

      Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a $10-off View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

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      Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased? By: Leemore S. Dafny , Kate Ho and Edward Kong Drug View Details
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      Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care

      Impact Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation Health Minute: The Real Impact of Coupons on Drug Pricing Nabihah Sachedina Joint Degree 2013 More “Health Systems” stories Faculty Focus... View Details
      • 20 Oct 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Getting the Marketing Mix Right

      model helps measure that." The Ideal Mix When planning marketing campaigns, brand managers have a wide portfolio of weapons to draw on, including in-store merchandising, advertising, coupons and sweepstakes, trade promotions, prices,... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 17 Sep 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

      drugs for chronic conditions—from pharmacies to a combination of direct mail and telephone. The idea was that if you have a chronic condition, you're in a replenishment mode. You have to fill the prescription regularly over a number of... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
      • 25 Oct 2016
      • First Look

      October 25, 2016

      insulate consumers from cost sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 21 Mar 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

      you decide to focus your research on the grocery retail business? Rajiv Lal: The programs I see most often are the simple programs where you get a card, and use the card to get promotions. You see these in all types of retail business: grocery stores, View Details
      Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail
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