Drug purchase price volatility in an academic medical center
| Autor: | Megan Park, Bryan C. McCarthy, Armando Cortes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pharmacology
Drug Academic Medical Centers Actuarial science business.industry Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Dashboard (business) Pharmacy Nonprescription Drugs 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Group Purchasing Consumer Behavior Purchasing Drug Costs 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Time frame Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Business Volatility (finance) Data input health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 78(Supplement_2) |
| ISSN: | 1535-2900 |
| Popis: | Purpose Inpatient drug purchase price trends at an 811-bed academic medical center are described. Summary Recent highly publicized drug price increases by pharmaceutical manufacturers have generated public interest in regulatory solutions to reduce drug costs. Monitoring drug price changes through internal dashboards has been demonstrated to aid in purchasing decisions to reduce the impact of drug price changes on inpatient pharmacy drug budgets. In this research, University of Chicago Medicine created an internal dashboard to detail specific inpatient drug purchase price trends. Dashboard data input included all medications purchased through the organization’s group purchasing organization over a 25-month time frame. A total of 69,245 drug purchases of 2,432 unique medications and/or dosage strengths were analyzed in the study. Within the 25-month time period, 706 medications (29%) had a net drug purchase price increase, while 898 (37%) had a net drug purchase price decrease. The range of net price percentage changes for medications with price increases was 0.01% to 733.6%; the range for medications with price decreases was 0.01% to 97.5%. Conclusion Relative to previous purchase prices, drug purchase prices decreased or remained the same more often than they increased over a 25-month time frame. However, drug purchase price percentage changes were far greater for medications whose prices increased rather than decreased. |
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