Medication Adherence Reduces ER & Inpatient Expenses By 34% For Complex SMI Consumers

Among consumers with schizophrenia and a comorbid cardiometabolic condition, those who took their antipsychotic medication and cardiometabolic medications as prescribed had annual health care expenses for emergency and inpatient care that were 34.3% lower than people who did not take one or both medications as prescribed. Annual emergency and inpatient expenditures for those who took both medications as prescribed were $678 and $6,955 respectively, compared to annual emergency and inpatient expenditures of $1,315 and $10,302 for those who were non-adherent to both medications. More than half of people diagnosed with schizophrenia have a co-morbid . . .