Health Care Around the World Pharmaceuticals Regulation

How do different countries negotiate drug prices?

This question is particularly relevant with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the requirement that CMS negotiate a ‘maximum fair price’ for drugs with the biggest impact on Medicare’s bottom line. A Health Affairs Forefront paper by Lin et al. (2023) compares how drug price negotiation differs between Canada, France, Germany and the US. A helpful table is below, but do read the whole article here.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/arriving-fair-price-medicare-drug-price-negotiation-program-considerations-other