Check Your Reference Pricing
It's About Profit and Power, Not Value
To OECD and Beyond
Did You Catch That?
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This drug pricing model uses prices from other countries to cap domestic drug prices

What is External Reference Pricing?

100

Pharmaceutical companies employ this strategy to dominate the market and keep generic drugs off-market

What is monopoly (or market exclusivity)?

100

In 2022, prescription drug prices in this country were 2.78 times that of 33 other OECD countries

What is the United States?

100

This drug pricing model get its name from a popular streaming service

What is Netflix?

200

This drug pricing model groups drugs that are therapeutically similar and sets a common reimbursement level for all drugs within that class

What is Internal Reference Pricing?

200

This drug pricing model sets prices based on the therapeutic benefit and QALY improvements

What is value-based pricing?

200

Prices for these types of drugs are lower in the US compared to other OECD countries

What is generic drugs?

200

Drug prices typically face this kind of demand

What is Inelastic?

300

Robinson et al (2017) used this study design to show that internal reference pricing decreased employer spending, but increased out-of-pocket costs for employees

What is Difference-in-Differences?

300

This drug pricing model sets the price of a drug by calculating production (R&D) cost and adding a profit margin

What is cost-based pricing?

300

These 2 countries have the lowest drug prices

What is Japan and France?

300

This institute was the source for prices used in Yeung et al. (2022), which showed that value-based pricing could lead to annual savings of up to $57.5 billion

What is the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (or ICER)?

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