Share Your Content with Us
on TradePub.com for readers like you. LEARN MORE
Paying Physicians to Presribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States

Request Your Free Report Now:

"Paying Physicians to Presribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States"

As spending on brand-name prescription medications continues to increase, find out the strategies to promote greater prescribing of generics.

Summary Points:

  • Spending on brand-name prescription medications, particularly brand-name biologic drugs, continues to increase.
  • Considerable savings and improvements in medication adherence are possible from greater use of more affordable generic drugs and imminently available follow-on biologics.
  • Strategies to promote greater prescribing of generic drugs and follow-on biologics include traditional information-supplying programs such as formulary decision support and academic detailing and more novel financial incentives.
  • While private insurers, qualified health plans, and employers may legally offer physicians financial incentives to prescribe generic drugs and follow-on biologics, marginally greater risks and a developing evidence base militates against physician payment for therapeutic or noninterchangeable follow-on biologic substitution, and—at this time— for bioequivalent substitution of narrow therapeutic index (NTI) drugs or interchangeable follow-on biologic substitution.
  • Implementation of the various physician-centered strategies to promote greater prescribing of generic drug and follow-on biologics must be accompanied by comparative cost-utility studies assessing patient health outcomes.


Offered Free by: PLOS Medicine
See All Resources from: PLOS Medicine

Recommended for Professionals Like You: