Why should pharmacies participate?
Your participation contributes to an important effort to develop an accurate and comprehensive picture of health care expenditures in the United States. Prescription medicines are a major and increasing component of total health care costs. MEPS data indicate, for example, that total prescription drug expenditures rose more than 130 percent between 1996 and 2002. For private planning as well as public policy decisions, we all benefit from having accurate information available to inform our deliberations. By signing the MEPS Authorization Form, your customers have asked you to share their data with the study.
