Drug pricing and reimbursement in Europe: Strategy and tactics
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
AbstractThe increase of the research and development (R&D) costs and the time needed for development has resulted in a shortening of the market exclusivity period and has put pressure on fair return on investment for brands. Obtaining a higher price will help contribute to achieve this goal. In the pharmaceutical industry, two subsequent forms of pricing have to be taken into consideration: pricing and reimbursement. The approach where, early on in the R&D process, products are developed that add value to the (existing) treatment options and where enough data are generated during the development will be successful in giving the company a fair return on investment. In Europe (and Canada) where pricing is historically lower and regulated by local agencies, all having different ways to control drug prices, a well-considered R&D and regulatory strategy developed in close collaboration with marketing will lead to success. This success will only materialise with good and fair pricing if, together with the above-mentioned strategy, a well-established communication plan for the new 'consumers' in the healthcare sector (physicians, authorities and reimbursement responsible, as well as patient organisations) is set in place. Thorough communication between the different departments in the company from the first steps in the research through development until final market authorisation will enhance the chances of the product's success in the market.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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