Contraceptives At The Counter: Pharmacists Prescribed A Fraction Of Overall Contraceptives, 2022

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Abstract
The number of laws authorizing pharmacists to prescribe contraception is increasing across the US. We used national pharmacy claims to document pharmacist-prescribed contraception (contraceptive pill, patch, and ring) in twenty states allowing pharmacist prescribing in 2022. That year, pharmacist prescriptions made up only a small share of overall prescribing for these methods, and the average prescribing pharmacist wrote fewer than ten new prescriptions.