Abstract:inpatient care and drug costs represented about 50% and 27% respectively of overall expenses. The increase by 24.4% polytherapy patients mean costs as compared to monotherapy raised to 72% [IC 95: 44-106%] after adjustment on age, gender and presence of severe comorbidity. CONCLUSIONS: Polytherapy in epilepsy is associated with substantial higher direct costs.
OBJECTIVES:To develop a tool to estimate the first-year per member and total health plan costs associated with monitoring of MS therapies in the United … Show more
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