That is the discovering from a Shih et al. (2023).
Their first discovering is that white bagging and brown bagging should not but that frequent, aside from supportive care.
However use of “bagging” does lower your expenses…for payers at the least.
Adjusted imply insurance coverage funds PPPM [per patient per month] had been statistically considerably decrease for medication distributed underneath bagging vs purchase and invoice ($7405 [95% CI, $7111-$7700] vs $9547 [95% CI, $9471-$9622]; P < .001); …Adjusted imply and median OOP fee PPPM was greater for bagging follow vs purchase and invoice (imply: $315 [95% CI, $278-$351] vs $145 [95% CI, $141-$148];
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