The analysis supports the hypothesis that the potential for cost effectiveness of new therapies is dependent on factors specific to each disease area and furthermore to sub-populations within disease areas. Despite a clinical need still existing, the results suggest that no more technologies are...

In this study we test the impact of competition and other market attributes on the pricing of pharmaceuticals. Three decades worth of market and pricing data were collected and the market for lipid-lowering agents used as a case study. Panel data and cross sectional methods were applied to...

Limited healthcare budgets result in payers adopting policies at national, regional or local level to achieve allocative efficiency in drug spending. Some of these aim at creating a link between pharmaceutical prices and the value they provide by setting a cost effectiveness (CE) threshold as...