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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w27563 |
来源ID | Working Paper 27563 |
Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation | |
Leila Agha; Soomi Kim; Danielle Li | |
发表日期 | 2020-07-20 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper studies how insurance coverage policies impact pharmaceutical innovation. In the United States, most patients obtain prescription drugs through insurance plans administered by Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). Beginning in 2012, PBMs began excluding coverage for many newly approved drugs when cheaper alternatives were available. Relative to firms’ existing practices, we show that exclusions substantially reduced insurance claims for targeted drugs, lowering their profitability. This new risk of coverage exclusion reshaped upstream pharmaceutical R&D: for every 1 standard deviation increase in drug class exclusion risk, we estimate an 11% decline in subsequent development activity. This change translated into a relative decline in the development of drug candidates that appear more incremental: that is, those in drug classes with more pre-existing therapies and with less scientifically novel research. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27563 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585236 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Leila Agha,Soomi Kim,Danielle Li. Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation. 2020. |
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