Medication Nonadherence: A Case Study

Medication nonadherence does cost billions of dollars. It costs billions to pharmaceutical companies as it results in lost business and it is currently costing medicinal services suppliers severe punishments, conceivably in the billions, for not accomplishing responsible results, for example, doctor's facility readmission rates or the impacts of the arrangements' star evaluations under Medicare (Williams et al., 2013). One of the two fundamental purposes behind nonadherence is the point at which a patient's desire of advantages of treatment surpasses the real advantages, or when the cost is more prominent than the patient anticipated. This happens when the financial burden outweighs the potential gain of the medications. The other fundamental …show more content…
Making these decisions often results in the worse adherence to and sometimes the discontinuation of certain medications and therapies that are needed in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. According to a study performed by Naci, Soumeri, Ross-Degnan, Zhang, Briesacher, Gurwitz & Madden (2014), those elderly patients that have four or more chronic conditions were witnessed as having an increase in the prevalence of cost-related nonadherence. There were also those that did forgo basic needs in order to purchase medications which leave the need to alter policy in order to lessen the weight of drug treatment costs. Many articles have addressed the fact that there are those that are part of the elderly population that are retired and without a monthly check that is fulfilling enough to cover everything that is needed. Poor medication adherence is a public health issue that results in negative health consequences that may not be reversal within a certain period of time. This is even more prevalent for those that do not have the needs to cover all of medications that are needed and feel as though they have to stretch their medications to make them last (Marcum, Hanlon & Murray,