OTC Oral Contraceptive Interest Could Be Price Sensitive, Study Suggests

A survey with 2,026 women and 513 teens showed they are willing to pay out-of-pocket for the convenience of OTC access to an oral contraceptive but not to pay as much as they were four years earlier, according to a study led by Daniel Grossman, University of California-San Francisco, and Kate Grindlay, Ibis Reproductive Health.

Women’s interest in OTC access to oral contraceptives may hinge on affordable prices or coverage by insurers, say researchers in the first study looking at making progestin-only pills available nonprescription.

A 2015 survey with 2,026 women and 513 teens ages 15 to 17 showed they are willing to pay out-of-pocket for the convenience of OTC access to birth control pills but not to pay as much as they were four years

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