Seems like the prescribing problem is mostly due to the strong marketing of the brand “Epi-Pen”, to the extent that doctors and insurers are unaware of alternative EAI options
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A similar device, the Adrenaclick, was prescribed just a few hundred times last year, and a generic version was prescribed about 183,000 times, according to data from IMS Health. Since that device isn’t considered by the Food and Drug Administration as therapeutically equivalent to the EpiPen, it can’t be substituted when filling a prescription.[/quote]
While it shouldn’t be necessary, it sounds like a savvy patient can ask the doctor to not write the word “Epi-Pen” on their prescription, but instead “epinephrine Injection, USP, auto-injector”, and can then get Adrenaclick or a generic.
