Do pharmaceutical budgets deliver financial sustainability in healthcare? Evidence from Europe

M Mills, P Kanavos - Health Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Payers have increasingly implemented a variety cost-containment measures to promote
sustainability in the pharmaceutical sector. This paper provides an assessment of a range of …

Impact of cross-reference pricing on pharmaceutical prices: manufacturers' pricing strategies and price regulation

T Stargardt, J Schreyögg - Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2006 - Springer
Objective Several EU countries are determining reimbursement prices of pharmaceuticals
by cross-referencing prices of foreign countries. Our objective is to quantify the theoretical …

Easy cuts, easy rebound: Drug expenditures with massive price cuts in Korea

HY Kwon, S Bae, S Choi, S Park, EK Lee, S Park, J Kim - Health Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Backgrounds Since 2012, the Korean government has introduced 46.5% price cut
for off-patent medicines in order to reign everescalating drug expenditure. This study sought …

Factors influencing prescription behavior of physicians

S Shamimulhaq, R Ahmed, N Ahmad… - The Pharma …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
The Competition is increasing day by day in Business arena and one who reacted timely
against these frequent changes can survive in the competition, same in the field of …

Regulation of pharmaceutical markets in Germany: improving efficiency and controlling expenditures?

R Busse, J Schreyögg, KD Henke - The International journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Rising pharmaceutical expenditure has become a major concern for policy makers in
Germany over recent years. Therefore, the pharmaceutical market has been increasingly …

Exploring the impact of clawback on pharmaceutical expenditure: A case study of public hospitals in Greece

AN Letsios, G Mavridoglou… - … Journal of Health …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Several European administrations have applied various mechanisms promoting cost
containment to stabilise their budgets for pharmaceutical expenditure. Since 2016, Greece …

The diffusion of generics after patent expiry in Germany

KE Fischer, T Stargardt - The European Journal of Health Economics, 2016 - Springer
To identify the influences on the diffusion of generics after patent expiry, we analyzed 65
generic entries using prescription data of a large German sickness fund between 2007 and …

The impact of physician-level drug budgets on prescribing behavior

KE Fischer, T Koch, K Kostev, T Stargardt - The European journal of health …, 2018 - Springer
To contain pharmaceutical spending, drug budgets have been introduced across health
systems. Apart from analyzing whether drug budgets fulfill their overall goal of reducing …

Management im Gesundheitswesen–eine Einführung in Gebiet und Buch

R Busse, J Schreyögg - … im Gesundheitswesen: Das Lehrbuch für Studium …, 2013 - Springer
Zusammenfassung Das Lehr-und Forschungsgebiet» Management im Gesundheitswesen
«hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Es besteht in vielen Bereichen …

Modelling pharmaceutical price changes in Germany: a function of competition and regulation

T Stargardt - Applied Economics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, price changes for pharmaceuticals in Germany are modelled as a function of
regulation and competition. Changes in the regulatory environment, and in the competitive …