What is a tier 3 drug?
Level or Tier 1: Low-cost generic and brand-name drugs. Level or Tier 2: Higher-cost generic and brand-name drugs. Level or Tier 3: High-cost, mostly brand-name drugs that may have generic or brand-name alternatives in Levels 1 or 2.
What are tier 1 and tier 2 drugs?
There are typically three or four tiers:
- Tier 1: Least expensive drug options, often generic drugs.
- Tier 2: Higher price generic and lower-price brand-name drugs.
- Tier 3: Mainly higher price brand-name drugs.
- Tier 4: Highest cost prescription drugs.
What is a tier 1 drug?
Tier 1. The prescription drug tier which consists of the lowest cost tier of prescription drugs, most are generic. Tier 2. The prescription drug tier which consists of medium-cost prescription drugs, most are generic, and some brand name prescription drugs.
What tier are chemotherapy drugs?
Tier 4 includes IV chemotherapy drugs.
Why do doctors prescribe generic drugs?
Generic drugs are a boon in health care. Typically lower in cost and as effective as their branded counterparts, they help control pharmacy spending and increase access to important therapies for patients who could be deterred by the high cost of some branded drugs.
Why generic medicines are cheap?
Generic medicines tend to cost less than their brand-name counterparts because they do not have to repeat animal and clinical (human) studies that were required of the brand-name medicines to demonstrate safety and effectiveness.
How many tablets are in a Jolivette?
Jolivette ® is available in a blister card ( NDC 52544-892-28) with a tablet dispenser (unfilled). The blister card contains 28 lime green tablets. Each lime green, round, flat-faced, beveled edge tablet contains 0.35 mg norethindrone and is imprinted WATSON on one side and 892 on the other side.
What is Jolivette used for?
Jolivette is a form of progesterone, a female hormone important for regulating ovulation and menstruation. Jolivette is used for birth control (contraception) to prevent pregnancy.
How do you take Jolivette?
How to use Jolivette. If you begin taking it on any other day, use an additional form of non-hormonal birth control (such as condoms, spermicide) for the first 48 hours to prevent pregnancy until the medication has enough time to work. Continue taking one tablet every day. After taking the last tablet in a pack, start a new pack the next day.
Is there estrogen in the Jolivette® insert?
Jolivette® does not contain estrogen and, therefore, this insert does not discuss the serious health risks that have been associated with the estrogen component of combined oral contraceptives (COCs).