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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"drug pricing"”.
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Reducing Provincial Drug Plan Costs Through Regional Pooled-Purchasing Agreements
… health ministries are facing rising provincial drug plan costs that can be attributed to rising medication costs and increasing drug plan claims. Provinces currently employ a collection of policy tools that have not proven to be effective in reducing the cost of these essential programs. Current …
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A study of the social causes of over-medication in China
… relate to the phenomenon of prescription drug over-use. The study has mainly used documentary and interview research methods. The primary methods of data collection are: 1) a review of documents and literatures obtained from governmental (e.g. MOH report and Year Book of Public Health, …
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Improvement of global access to life-saving medicines. Facing the future.
… surveys with the main stakeholders: authorities, drug-developers and NGOs/foundations. It revealed the following determinants, which contributed to the occurrence of drug pricing conflicts in Brazil, Thailand and South Africa: governmental constitutional commitments to supply medicines to poor …
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Variability in Pricing of Generic Antipsychotic Medications Used in the Treatment of Schizophrenia at Community Pharmacies in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… examining variability in generic medication pricing at community pharmacies have revealed conflicting results. No studies have examined variability in costs of antipsychotic medications or if these costs vary across types of pharmacies. Specifically, comparative drug pricing for generic …
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Pharmaceutical Industry Events and the Stock Market
… events relevant to the pharmaceutical drug pricing issue in the United States. We examine a few policies and solutions in e↵orts to assist with this issue. Using an event study methodology, we investigate the impact of the Generic Drug User Fee Act of 2012 (GDUFA) and Medicare Part D …
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The Financialization of a Cure: A Political Economy of Biomedical Innovation, Pricing, and Public Health
… regimen intensified a global debate about the pricing of breakthrough medicines. The dominant economic explanations for pricing have centered on ‘risk’, with prices representing the costly and failure-ridden process of drug development, and ‘value’, with higher prices said to reflect …
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Empirical studies of oligopolistic pricing and heterogeneous consumer search
… patterns in retail markets for prescriptions drugs {Chapters 1 and 2), as well as a separate study of hospital-insurer bargaining in the state of Connecticut (Chapter 3). Chapter 1 seeks to establish the empirical importance of price dispersion due to costly consumer search by examining retail …