Risk-sharing schemes (RSS)

Agreements concluded by payers and pharmaceutical companies to diminish the impact on the payer's budget of new and existing medicines brought about by either the uncertainty of the value of the medicine and/or the need to work within finite budgets.

A contract between two parties who agree to engage in a transaction in which there are uncertainties regardless concerning its final value. Nevertheless, one party, the company, has sufficient confidence in its claims of either effectiveness or efficiency that it is ready to accept a reward or a penalty depending on the observed performance of its product.
Synonym: Risk-sharing agreements, Managed entry agreements

Last update: 30 June 2023

Source: PPRI