Objectives We analyzed the effect of the outpatient prescription incentive program and price
cuts of listed medicines in South Korea on prescription drug expenditures and prescription …

To contain pharmaceutical spending, drug budgets have been introduced across health
systems. Apart from analyzing whether drug budgets fulfill their overall goal of reducing …

Spending on prescription drugs (Rx) represents one of the fastest growing components of
US healthcare spending and has coincided with an expansion of pharmaceutical …

Background: While the prices of pharmaceuticals are relatively low in Greece, expenditure
on them is growing more rapidly than almost anywhere else in the European Union …

Objective To review international policies to control expenditure on pharmaceuticals by
influencing the behaviour of patients and providers and regulating the pharmaceutical …

Background The proportion of total healthcare expenditures spent on drugs has continued to
grow in countries of all income categories. Policy‐makers are under pressure to control …

Prescription drug costs are the fastest rising component of health care spending worldwide.
To control drug costs, the Bureau of the National Health Insurance in Taiwan has taken a …

Abstract Background The Korean healthcare system is composed of costly and inefficient
structures that fail to adequately divide the functions and roles of medical care organizations …

Background For addressing antibiotic overuse, Japan designed a health care policy in
which eligible medical facilities could claim a financial reward when antibiotics were not …

A number of recent studies have documented the sizable impact of consumer cost sharing
without accounting for the other drug management strategies being adopted simultaneously …