Prescription analytics is the practice of analyzing consumers' prescription drug histories in order to provide useful information for health insurers.

In the United States, two-thirds of health insurers use prescription history reports to help identify consumers who may prove expensive to insure, and to set prices or deny coverage.[1] The reports, created and sold by medical data brokers such as MedPoint and IntelliScript, cost about $15 each and include information going back five years covering drug names, dosage, fill dates, refills, pharmacy and physician information, and possible medical conditions. The reports also include a “risk score”, based on a health risk assessment, predicting what an individual might cost an insurer in the future, as well as listing medical conditions the person may be being treated for.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Terhune, Chad (23 July 2008). "They Know What's in Your Medicine Cabinet". Business Week magazine. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  2. ↑ Nakashima, Ellen (4 August 2008). "Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers". Washington Post. Retrieved 29 May 2011.


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