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death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …
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the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …
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The nation's spending for prescription drugs has grown dramatically in recent years. Previous studies have shown that the replacement of older drugs by newer, more expensive, drugs is the single most important reason for this increase, but they did not measure how much of the difference between...
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generics and their market shares. This relationship is stronger for pharmaceuticals under reference pricing rather than …. -- pharmaceuticals ; pharmacies ; generic substitution …
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-savings, and that patients' copayments decrease despite the extra surcharges under RP. -- pharmaceuticals ; regulation ; generic …
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are price responsive, and that the price response is considerably higher when the doctor's affiliated hospital covers the … treatment instead of insurance the total cost of treatment is significantly reduced. -- pharmaceuticals ; discrete choice model …
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A non-trivial fraction of people cannot afford to buy pharmaceutical products at unregulated market prices. Therefore, the paper analyzes the public insurance of the pharmaceutical products in terms of price controls and the socially optimal third-degree price discrimination. It characterizes...
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We study the moral hazard effects of the drug copayment threshold in Finland using detailed prescription drug purchase data. The analysis reveals that the average drug costs increase discontinuously by 17% at the threshold above which out-of-pocket drug costs decrease substantially. Our results...
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national insurance. -- pharmaceuticals ; discrete choice model ; funding-schemes …
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In the European Union, medicines are regulated products subject to both single market (e.g., regional exhaustion of property rights) and country specific health care regulations (e.g., medicines pricing). This gives rise to parallel trade (PT), a phenomenon that takes place when a patented...
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