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other organizations and articles offer insights that augment the findings
in this survey. By topic, they include:
Cost
Sharing Incentives
Prescription
Drug Cost Sharing Associations With Medication and Medical Utilization
and Spending and Health
The Journal of the American Medical Association,
July 4, 2007
Value-based Insurance Design: Aligning Incentives to Bridge the
Divide Between Quality Improvement and Cost Containment
The American Journal of Managed Care, December
2006
Disease Management
Asthma
» American
Lung Association
» The
Cleveland Clinic
» Mayo
Clinic
»
National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Depression
» American
Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Inc.
» National
Institute of Mental Health
»
National
Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
»
WebMD.com
Diabetes
» American
Diabetes Association
» Centers
for Disease Control, Diabetes Public Health Resource
» National
Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, National Institutes of Health
High
Blood Pressure
» American
Heart Association
» The
Cleveland Clinic
»
Mayo
Clinic
»
National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
High
Cholesterol
» American
Heart Association
»
National
Institutes of Health, National Cholesterol Education Program
Drug
Cost & Pricing
»
AMCP
Task Force on Drug Payment Methodologies
» Drug
Payment Methodologies Interactive Resource Library, Academy of
Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)
» Caremark
2006 Trends Rx® Report (based on 2005 data)
» Express
Scripts 2006 Drug Trend Report (based on 2006 data)
» Kaiser
Family Foundation Prescription Drug Trends Fact Sheet
» Medco
2007 Drug Trend Report (based on 2006 data)
» PBMI
Prescription Drug Benefit Cost and Plan Design Survey Report,
2007 Edition (based on 2007 data)
»
2007
Segal Health Plan Cost Trend Survey (based on summer 2006
survey)
Drug
Safety
»
The
FDAs Drug Review Process
» MedWatch:
Managing Risks at the FDA
» CDER:
The Consumer Watchdog for Safe and Effective Drugs
» Drug
Safety Oversight Board Meeting Summaries
» FDA
Drug Safety Initiative Fact Sheet
» The
Future of Drug Safety – Promoting and Protecting the Health
of the Public
FDA’s Response to the Institute of Medicine’s 2006
Report
» Recalls,
Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
» Consumer
Reports Best Buy Drugs
» healthfinder®
Award-winning Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services together with other federal agencies.
Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource
for finding the best information on the Internet. healthfinder®
links to carefully selected government and nonprofit health and
human services information from more than 1,500 health-related organizations.
»
MedLine
Plus
The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes
of Health, created and maintains MedlinePlus to assist in locating
authoritative health information. The pages contain carefully
selected links to Web resources with information for health professionals.
Medicare
Part D Beneficiary Information
»
Medicare
Tips and Tools
»
Medicare
Today
»
Medicare
Prescription Drug Plan Finder
Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Resources
»
General
Employer/Union Overview
» Creditable
Coverage
» Retiree
Drug Subsidy
» Employer
Group Waiver Plans
Foreign
Language Assistance
Medicare Prescription
Drug Plan selection, enrollment and application help in foreign
languages.
Spanish
Resources
»
National
Alliance for Hispanic Health's Bilingual Su Familia
Toll-free telephone: 1.866.783.2645
Asian
Resources
»
National
Asian Pacific Center on Aging's National Multilingual Help Center
Toll-free telephone numbers:
Chinese 1.800.582.4218
Korean 1.800.582.4259
Vietnamese 1.800.582.4336
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