That’s the discovering from a Shih et al. (2023).

Their first discovering is that white bagging and brown bagging will not be but that frequent, except for supportive care.

Nevertheless use of “bagging” does lower your expenses…for payers at the least.

Adjusted imply insurance coverage funds PPPM [per patient per month] have been statistically considerably decrease for medication distributed beneath 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 increased for bagging apply vs purchase and invoice (imply: $315 [95% CI, $278-$351] vs $145 [95% CI, $141-$148];

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