Table 2.
Actual Cost Sharing Structure | |||||
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Self-Reported Cost Sharing Structure | None (No Cost) (%) | One-Tiered Copay/ No Cap (%) | Two-Tiered Copay/ No Cap (%) | Two-Tiered Copay/Cap (%) | Total (%) |
None (no cost) | 85.9 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 8.6 |
One-tiered copay/no cap | 7.1 | 68.1 | 36.5 | 16.2 | 42.1 |
Two-tiered copay/no cap | 0.3 | 17.6 | 47.3 | 8.3 | 32.2 |
One-tiered copay/cap | 6.7 | 3.7 | 5.5 | 17.4 | 6.0 |
Two-tiered copay/cap | 0.0 | 0.2 | 4.0 | 47.4 | 6.1 |
No response | 0.0 | 6.0 | 4.4 | 8.0 | 4.9 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Percentages who reported each type of behavioral response or category, weighted for sampling proportions.
One-tier refers to a single copayment amount for prescription drugs; two-tier refers to one copayment amount for generic drugs and another copayment amount for brand-name drugs. Cap refers to an annual drug benefit cap, above which patients pay for the full price of their drugs. There was no actual plan available with one-tiered copayand cap. No response refers to participants who reported that they did not know how much they had to pay and could not guess.