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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2017 Feb;55(2):191–198. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000630

Table 3b.

Mean copayments of medications by change in tier in the year before and after VBF implementation

Change in Tier Number of unique medicationsa, n (%) Number of prescription claims year before, n (%) Pre-VBF Copay, mean (SD) Post-VBF Copay, mean (SD) Diff, mean (SD)
No Change in tier 1,207 (73) 41,193 (68) 18 (15) 27 (19) 8 (6)
Moved into lower tier 325 (20) 16,871 (28) 14 (11) 7 (13) −7 (6)
Moved into higher tier 122 (7) 2,288 (4) 40 (17) 79 (23) 39 (22)