Adherence To Antipsychotics Associated With Lower Psychiatric Hospitalization Rates & Expenditures
Adherence to antipsychotic therapy among Medicare Part D enrollees with schizophrenia is associated with a lower probability of psychiatric hospitalization and lower psychiatric hospital expenditures. The greater the adherence measured as proportion of days covered (PDC), the lower the probability of hospitalization and the lower the costs. Relative to a proportion of days covered less than .70, a PDC of between .80 and .90 was associated with lower psychiatric hospital spending of $723 and a PDC greater than .90 had …
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