An Empirical Study on the Unreasonably High Retailing Price of Chinese Patent Medicines
- VernacularTitle:中成药价格虚高的实证研究
- Author:
Yun TIAN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Unreasonably high prices of drugs;
Production cost;
Theoretical tax-containing producer price;
Theoretical retail price;
Daily dose price
- From:
China Pharmacy
2005;0(21):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: To probe into the gap between the production cost and retail prices of Chinese patent drugs for references of setting scientific and reasonable drug price.METHODS: The retail prices of the selected drugs were surveyed on the spot;the production prices of the drugs were calculated using the cost accounting theory;statistical method was adopted to compare the equivalence between the production cost and retail price and compute the rational ratio between cost and retail price.RESULTS: Among the 93 high price Chinese patent drugs surveyed,the retail prices of only 6 approached their theoretical retail prices,and the remaining 87 had unreasonably high prices to different extent.CONCLUSION: More importance should be attached to the unreasonably high prices of Chinese patent drugs.The upper limit of the retail prices or daily dose retail prices of Chinese patent drugs should be set so as to keep the unreasonably high drug prices under control.
