Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Tweet[IWS] EBRI: PRESCRIPTION DRUG USE and LIFETIME INCOME ILLUSTRATIONS [24 March 2014]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI Notes March 2014, Vol. 35, No. 3 [24 March 2014]
“Brand-Name and Generic Prescription Drug Use After Adoption of a Full-Replacement, Consumer-Directed Health Plan With a Health Savings Account,” and “How Would Defined Contribution Participants React to Lifetime Income Illustrations? Evidence from the 2014 Retirement Confidence Survey”
http://www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=5367
or
http://www.ebri.org/pdf/notespdf/EBRI_Notes_03_Mar-14_Accts-RCS1.pdf
[full-text, 16 pages]
Prescription Drug Use: Do consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) result in lower prescription drug use? New research from EBRI of one big employer finds that moving to an HSA-eligible plan reduced the number of both generic and brand-name prescriptions filled. Press release
Lifetime Income Illustrations: Do consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) result in lower prescription drug use? New research from EBRI of one big employer finds that moving to an HSA-eligible plan reduced the number of both generic and brand-name prescriptions filled. Press release.
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