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The Effect of Newer Drugs on Health Spending : Do They Really Increase the Costs?

Civan, Abdulkadir; Köksal, Bülent - 2012

We analyze the influence of technological progress on pharmaceuticals on rising health expenditures using US State …

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Improving data on pharmaceutical expenditure in hospitals and other health care settings

Morgan, David - 2022

limited to medicines dispensed in community pharmacies. However, spending on pharmaceuticals used elsewhere in the health …

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Shortages of medicines in OECD countries

Chapman, Suzannah - 2022

Even in wealthy economies, access to medicines is increasingly affected by medicine shortages – an issue exacerbated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper was to examine the extent and nature of medicine shortages in OECD countries (pre-COVID-19) and explore the...

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An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? Short- and Long-Run Effects of Pharmaceutical Patents on U.S. Health Care Expenditures

Johnson, Hilary S.; Johnson, Daniel K. N. - 2014

driving the costs of pharmaceuticals, and develop a structured vector autoregressive (SVAR) model to measure the social rate …-run prices in pharmaceuticals themselves, but with lower long-run prices in the aggregate medical sector which includes … pharmaceuticals as a component part. Further, the TRIPS Agreement and Hatch-Waxman Act to enable generic competition have both been …

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Reference pricing and cost-sharing : theory and evidence on German off-patent drugs ; conference paper

Herr, Annika; Stühmeier, Torben; Wenzel, Tobias - 2014

-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference …

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Does physician dispensing increase drug expenditures?

Kaiser, Boris; Schmid, Christian - 2013

We analyze whether the possibility for physicians to dispense drugs increases health care expenditures due to the incentives created by the markup on drugs sold. Using comprehensive physician-level data from Switzerland, we exploit the fact that there is regional variation in the dispensing...

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The importance of the first generic substitution : evidence from Sweden

Janssen, Aljoscha; Granlund, David - 2022

We analyze changes in the willingness to substitute from prescribed pharmaceuticals to more affordable generic … dispensed pharmaceuticals, we employ a dynamic event study and an instrumental variable approach to show that an initial …

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Spending on Orphan Cancer Drugs for Ultra-Rare, Rare, and Common Diseases

Michaeli, Daniel T.; Michaeli, Thomas - 2023

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National and international tests of the new drug cost offset theory

Santerre, Rexford E. - In: Southern economic journal 77 (2011) 4, pp. 1033-1043

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Drug oversupply in nursing homes : an empirical evaluation of administrative data

Stroka, Magdalena A. - 2014

A widely discussed shortcoming of long-term care in nursing homes for elderly is the inappropriate or suboptimal drug utilization, in particular the utilization of psychotropic drugs. This paper estimates the effect of institutionalization on the drug intake of frail elderly using administrative...

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