Delorme J., Paraponaris A., Moatti Jean-Paul. (2008). Econometric estimates of transaction price indexes for anticancer drugs in a heterogeneous hospitals payment system. Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics and Policy, 16 (4), p. 87-104. ISSN 1538-5698.
Titre du document
Econometric estimates of transaction price indexes for anticancer drugs in a heterogeneous hospitals payment system
Année de publication
2008
Type de document
Article
Auteurs
Delorme J., Paraponaris A., Moatti Jean-Paul
Source
Journal of Pharmaceutical Finance, Economics and Policy, 2008,
16 (4), p. 87-104 ISSN 1538-5698
This article gives empirical evidence for the bargaining process between pharmaceutical firms and hospital buyers in the field of anticancer drugs. Transactions prices and quantities have been collected over the whole population of 40 hospitals and clinics that, in southeastern France, provided anticancer care from 1997 to 2000. Hospital transaction prices are very sensitive to the payment system : prices paid by not-for-profit hospitals for a chemotherapy course are 7.4% cheaper than prices paid by private for-profit hospital. Generic competition has substantial negative effect on price : 72% when a drug faces a generic competitor.
