Slow Adoption and Low Adherence of Sacubitril/Valsartan for HFrEF
Contributor: Nick Hawkes
PARADIGM – HF demonstrated that Sacubitril/Valsartan reduces morbidity and mortality in patients with HFrEF compared to ACE-I/ARB therapy, so why is its adoption in the real world delayed?
Sangaralingham et al. accessed data from OptumLabs Data Warehouse, a large database of de-identified medical and pharmacy claims. Among patients identified based on systolic HF ICD codes, those prescribed sacubitril/valsartan were compared to those who were not. Patient variables included health plan, age, gender, race, region, comorbidities, other prescription medications, and provider specialty. Additionally the costs, out-of-pocket (OOP) and to the health plan, were captured.