Publications

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Issue Briefs

 

Issue Brief 3: Specialty Tiers: Unequal Treatment by Gary A. Puckrein, PhD, and Gretchen C. Wartman

Assigning drugs to specialty reimbursement tiers exerts different effects on patient care by design.

Issue Brief 2: Low Consumption and Higher Medicare Cost: Consumption Clusters in a Medicare Fee-for-Service Population by Gary Puckrein, PhD; Sean D. Cleary, PhD, MPH; and Mira Shapiro, MS

Analysis suggests that beneficiaries with chronic diseases who are low consumers of benefits tend to cost Medicare significantly more in the near term.

Issue Brief 1: Drug Prices and the Emerging Majority: Should Government Negotiate Drug Prices? (272 kb PDF) by Gary A. Puckrein, PhD; Randall W. Maxey, MD, PhD; Rene Rodriguez, MD; and Peter R. Deutsch, JD

Virtually lost in the discussion about drug prices is any recognition that the methods used to contain drug prices could undermine the health of the emerging majority of the US population.

 

 

E-Book

Origins and Strategies for Addressing Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Pharmaceutical Therapy: The Health-Care System, the Provider, and the Patient by Richard Levy, PhD; Robert C. Like, MD, MS; and Harry S. Shabsin, PhD

 

Landmark publication reveals disparities in pharmaceutical treatment for minority patients—a must read for those committed to eliminating health care disparities.

This authoritative, comprehensive resource provides systematic documentation about the impact of medication disparities on minorities.

Asthma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, HIV/AIDS, pain, and other chronic and infectious diseases are reviewed, revealing the profound impact of disparities in medication use, adherence rates, and response on our health-care system.

For health-care practitioners, policy makers, and third-party payers, this book provides important recommendations to improve medication use and outcomes for minorities.

 

About the Authors

 

Richard Levy, PhD, is a health-care consultant and former vice president of the National Pharmaceutical Council.

Robert C. Like, MD, MS, is professor and director of the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Harry S. Shabsin, PhD, is a private-practice psychologist.