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Urban vs. Rural Prescription Costs: How Geography Shapes Spending
GoodRx data reveal rural residents use more generics while urban patients face distinct treatment challenges, highlighting disparities in costs and access for chronic disease medications.
- GoodRx found that where people live influences prescription spending, and residents in urban areas versus rural areas don't always face wide-scale gaps in out-of-pocket costs.
- Rural areas tend to rely more on older generics and traditional treatments, and analysts say multiple factors explain why rural residents may fill fewer brand drugs than urban residents.
- Using a drug-level analysis, GoodRx estimated condition-level spending by aggregating drug-level expenditures and excluded some conditions with lower fill volumes across nine conditions.
- Evidence shows geographic disparities in costs for people with chronic conditions, and urban residents face challenges like asthma linked to environmental pollutants and gentrification.
- For some conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease and hemorrhoids, treatment relies on generics widely used across areas, while people with leukemia often receive oral antimetabolites in maintenance therapy.
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oasisamuel // Shutterstock Urban vs. rural prescription costs: How geography shapes spending Where you live can shape your health and your prescription costs. Urban and rural communities differ not just in lifestyle and resources, but also in the medications people take and how much they pay for them out of pocket. New research from GoodRx, a platform for medication savings, shows that geography influences things like whether patients use newer,…
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