This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the … pricing system was changed in 2011 in order to tie prices more to the benefits of the pharmaceuticals. A multiple linear … regression of 187 pharmaceuticals which were assessed from 2011 to 2017 suggests that, despite the change, the manufacturers …

This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the … pricing system was changed in 2011 in order to tie prices more to the benefits of the pharmaceuticals. A multiple linear … regression of 187 pharmaceuticals which were assessed from 2011 to 2017 suggests that, despite the change, the manufacturers …

-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference … price affects the consumers' co-payments in a non-monotonic way: For high reference prices, a marginally lower reference … price may lead to lower co-payments. However, for low reference prices a further reduction may result into higher consumer …