In 2012, avoidable U.S. health care costs related to inefficient or inappropriate medication use amounted to a staggering $475 billion, according Doug Long, MBA, the vice president of industry relations at IQVIA, a global health information company.
By far, the biggest contributor to that nearly half-trillion dollars in lost savings opportunities was medication nonadherence, Mr. Long noted during a recent AMCP virtual meeting.
Patients’ failure to take prescribed medicines,