Medicines with one seller and many buyers: strategies to increase the power of the payer

BMJ. 2020 May 20:369:m1705. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1705.

Authors

Andrew Rintoul¹, Allison Colbert², Sarah Garner¹, Anita Kotwani³, Sabine Vogler⁴, Jacoline Bouvy⁵, Andrew Hill⁶

Affiliations

¹ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
² World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland [email protected].
³ V P Chest Institute, Delhi University, India.
⁴ Gesundheit Österreich, Vienna, Austria.
⁵ National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, London, UK.
⁶ University of Liverpool, UK.

Abstract

Andrew Rintoul and colleagues argue that collaboration and transparency increase the market power of buyers who face a monopoly

MeSH terms

Commerce / economics*
Commerce / ethics
Consumer Behavior
Costs and Cost Analysis / economics*
Delivery of Health Care / economics*
Economic Competition / legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Inventions / economics
Inventions / trends
Pharmaceutical Preparations / economics*
Pharmaceutical Preparations / supply & distribution
Population Dynamics / trends
Stakeholder Participation

Substances

Pharmaceutical Preparations