Why would payers do this? If patients comply and have more pharmacist visits and take more medications, won’t costs increase?
• Payers are interested in helping their beneficiaries improve their health, and are, of course, concerned with keeping the cost of care down. Although experience has shown that medication and medication management costs increase in programs like the Maryland P3 Project, these increases are more than offset by the overall savings in health care costs. The evidence shows that patients with diabetes who do not take care of their disease properly suffer the consequences of deteriorating health which leads to avoidable and expensive acute care.
