Medicare could save 90% on hypertension medications by switching to generic drugs

Medicare could save 90% on hypertension medications by switching to generic drugs:

“Prescription drug spending accounts for an increasing share of U.S. health care costs.” Mathew E. Growdon, MD, MPH, of the division of pharmacoepidemiology in the department of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote. “Spending can be decreased by substituting generic drugs for identical brand-name drugs (generic substitution) or for brand-name drugs with similar effect (therapeutic interchange).”