6.08.2011

Spain: Payment by results on the horizon

Dear all,

According to El Pais, the autonomous Spanish community of Cataluña has indicated that it would like to move towards performance based for hospital drugs similar to the Italian risk sharing model. The idea is that prices for hospital drugs, especially in the oncology area, are fixed at the central minsitry of health level but than the autonomous community negotiate with the manufacturers according to outcomes based risk sharing models. The responsible for pharmaceuticals in the Catalan NHS sees this as a way of getting novel medicines to the patients while at the same time maintaining the sustainability of the system. Accoding to the article the program is going to be initiated in one hospital in Barcelona and aparently an agreement with one manufacturer has almost been finalized. It remains to be seen how the ministry of health is reacting to this initiative.

Cheers
Ulf

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