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Instructions to physicians to ensure rational prescribing of medicines (i.e. to ensure that the right medicine in the right dose is given to the…
Review of prescribing practices of physicians.
In German: Monitoring von Verordnungen / Verschreibungen
Kontrolle des ärztlichen…
Category that defines if a medicine is subject to medical prescription issued by a health professional permitted to prescribe (prescription-only…
Medicine that can be dispensed only on a health professional prescription.
In German: Rezeptpflichtiges Arzneimittel /verordnungspflichtiges…
Umbrella term for a facility that is allowed to dispense prescription-only medicines to outpatients, e.g. community pharmacy, dispensing doctor.…
Value component of pharmaceutical expenditure. Typically, it is indicated per pack, but it can also refer to items in a pack or to standard units. It…
A medicine price analysis aims to interpret medicine price data. It can address specific therapeutic groups of medicines, different types of prices (…
A cost-containment measure which fixes ex-ante the maximum price of medicine, e.g. taking into consideration inflation rates and production cost.…
A cross-country (or cross-national) medicine price comparison aims to survey and analyse data on medicine prices in more than one country. Within a…
Elements which a (medicine) price is composed of. They include, for instance, margins, mark-ups, taxes and duties.
Last update: 26 June 2023
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Pricing policies where government authorities set the price of a medicine and/or indirectly influence it (e.g. statutory pricing, price negotiations…
A cost-containment measure during which the set price of a medicine is reduced by the authorities.
In German: Preiskürzung
Kostendämpfungsmaßnahme,…
A cost-containment measure during which the price of a medicine is fixed (‘frozen’) at a given level, mostly for a predetermined period of time.…
A pricing policy in which medicine prices are discussed and agreed by seller and purchaser (e.g. between manufacturer and third party payer).
In…
A form of pricing procedure where pharmaceutical companies can freely set the price of a medicine (free pricing) but have to officially inform the…
Evaluation of the price of all, or groups of, medicines, typically in comparison to the prices of the same medicines in other countries, in order to…
Any research that investigates prices, or price components, of medicines in a single country or across countries at a specific date or over time. A…
Price study that aims to access and collect medicine price data according to a predefined methodology
Synonym: Medicine Price Surveyy
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The level (i.e. stage in the supply chain) at which the price of a medicine is set. Common price types include:
- ex-factory price
- pharmacy…
Payments to a provider (e.g. to community pharmacy in case of pharmacy distribution) designed in a way that they are linked to the price of a…