Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons

Sabine Vogler is Head of the Pharmacoeconomics Department at the Austrian Public Health Institute, and Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies affiliated to the Pharmacoeconomics Department. As a senior researcher working in this area for more than two decades, she has expertise and in-depth knowledge about European countries with regard to pharmaceutical pricing/prices, reimbursement and distribution, as well as cost-containment reforms, access and affordability issues. The Pharmacoeconomics department runs the Pharma Price Information (PPI) service that provides medicine price information for 30 European countries, and Dr Vogler and her team use PPI to support public pricing authorities as well as for research purposes.

• 1. Introduction2. Regional and international comparison of medicine prices3. Price studies for specific medicines4. Developments5. Discussion of methodology and findings6. Overview of existing methodologies7. Terminology8. Medicine price data sources9. Planning price studies10. Interpretation of price analyses11. Price comparison as one pricing12. Practice of external price referencing13. Assessment of EPR14. Policy guidance15. Policy brief16. Conclusions