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Procurement procedures describe award processes that are defined by law to conduct a procurement. The EU Public Procurement law defines four…
Procurement techniques relate to different methods for managing a procurement procedure, e.g. by making use of e-procurement or repetitive calls for…
Eligibility for reimbursement depends on the medicine in question (either a medicine is considered as reimbursable or as non-reimbursable). Last…
A profit framework is negotiated periodically between the state and the pharmaceutical industry. This framework is fixed for each individual…
Provision of health care by the government through national healthcare systems. Synonym: Public Healthcare Sector Last update: 20 June 2023 Source…
The amount paid by the purchaser in order to take delivery of a unit of a good or service at the time and place required by the purchaser. It…
A committee of experts who meets on a regular basis to evaluate and approve the purchase of consumables and equipment not already present in the…
Spatial deflators and currency converters, which eliminate the effects of the differences in price levels between countries, thus allowing volume…

R

Rational use of medicines ensures that patients receive medications appropriate to their clinical needs, in doses that meet their own individual…
Real-world data (RWD) refers to evidence obtained from real world evidence (RWE), which are observational data obtained outside the context of…
Rebate is a payment made to the purchaser after the transaction has occurred. Purchasers (either hospitals or pharmacies) receive a bulk refund from…
Process by which medications are removed from distribution channels and returned to the manufacturer due to safety concerns (such as inadvertent…
A group of medicines of the same active ingredient (ATC 5), in a given therapeutic class (ATC 4) or clustered based on a broader definition but still…
Price that is set in a reference price system, where the third party payer funds a maximum amount (= reference price), while the patient must pay the…
A reimbursement policy in which identical medicines (ATC 5 level) or similar medicines (ATC 4 level or other groups) are clustered (reference group…
A medicine which has been granted a marketing authorisation by a country or by the European Commission on the basis of submitted quality, pre-…
Medicines which are eligible for reimbursement. Costs of reimbursable medicines may be fully covered by third party payers, or only partially (a…
Coverage of the cost of reimbursable medicines by a public payer (such as social health insurance / National Health Service).  Synonym: funding In…
Medicines eligible for reimbursement are often grouped according to selected characteristics, e.g. route of administration (oral, etc.), main…
A list that contains medicines with regard to their reimbursement status. They may either include medicines eligible for reimbursement (positive list…