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. 2022 Jan 4;5(1):e2144521.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.44521.

Trends in Pricing and Out-of-Pocket Spending on Entecavir Among Commercially Insured Patients, 2014-2018

Jonathan D Alpern  1 , Heesoo Joo  2 , Ben Link  3 , Antonio Ciaccia  3 , William M Stauffer  2   4 , Nathan C Bahr  5 , Thomas M Leventhal  6
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Trends in Pricing and Out-of-Pocket Spending on Entecavir Among Commercially Insured Patients, 2014-2018

Jonathan D Alpern et al. JAMA Netw Open. .

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    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Mar 1;5(3):e225261. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.5261. JAMA Netw Open. 2022. PMID: 35267039 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study of health claims from patients with private insurance examines trends in the cost of entecavir prescribed for chronic hepatitis B treatment.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Alpern reported receiving funding from Arnold Ventures during the drafting of the manuscript for an unrelated study. Mr Ciaccia reported having clients that include the American Pharmacists Association, Ohio Pharmacists Association, and American Pharmacy Cooperative Incorporated; he reported having performed previous work for Capital Rx, a transparent pharmaceutical manager that uses national average drug acquisition cost methodology for pricing pharmacy claims. Dr Stauffer reported receiving an honorarium from Fishawack Health/Emergent BioSolutions and royalties from UpToDate outside the submitted work. Dr Bahr reported receiving research funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (No. K23NS110470) for unrelated work. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.. National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), Average Wholesale Price (AWP), Out-of-Pocket (OOP) Spending per 30-Day Supply of Generic Entecavir, and Numbers of Generic Entecavir Manufacturers in the US, 2014-2018
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