Patient and Plan Spending after State Specialty-Drug Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps.
Kai YeungDouglas BartholdStacie B DusetzinaAnirban BasuPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2020)
Caps for spending on specialty drugs were associated with substantial reductions in spending on specialty drugs among patients with the highest out-of-pocket costs, without detectable increases in health-plan spending, a proxy for future insurance premiums. (Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Data for Action Program.).