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The Role of Government Reimbursement in Drug Shortages / Ali Yurukoglu, Eli Liebman, David B. Ridley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yurukoglu, Ali.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17987.
- NBER working paper series no. w17987
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2012.
- Summary:
- Beginning in the mid-2000s, the incidence of drug shortages rose, especially for generic injectable drugs such as anesthetics and chemotherapy treatments. We examine whether reimbursement changes contributed to the shortages, focusing on a reduction in Medicare Part B reimbursement to providers for drugs. We hypothesize that lower reimbursement put downward pressure on manufacturers' prices which reduced manufacturers' incentives to invest in capacity, reliability, and new launches. We show that, after the policy change, shortages rose more for drugs with (i) higher shares of patients insured by Medicare, (ii) greater decreases in provider reimbursement, and (iii) greater decreases in manufacturer prices.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2012.
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