Medicaid and Medicare Drug Pricing: Strategy to Determine Market Prices
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services,
- Pharmeceuticals
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- Abt Associates,
- Pricing Strategy,
- Payment,
- Operational Accounting,
- Mergers & Acquisitions,
- Medicare,
- Medicaid,
- Investment,
- Healthcare,
- Finance,
- ...
- Source:
- Abt Associates
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Overview: This report provides background on current Medicaid and Medicare policy and the structure of the pharmaceutical marketplace and of pharmaceutical prices and payments, highlighting implications for the estimation of acquisition costs and for payment policy. Alternative approaches for estimating pharmacies' and physicians' acquisition costs for prescription drugs are then described and evaluated. After review and evaluation of the options, the paper recommends that actual acquisition costs be estimated by using manufacturer-supplied data on average selling prices by class of trade.
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Format: PDF | Size: 4,280KB | Date: Aug 2004 | Pages: 61




