Pricing, spending, and shortages in US biopharmaceutical markets
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this era of national concern about the availability and affordability of prescription drugs, policymaking is moving quickly, although critical gaps persist in the supporting evidence base. This dissertation is a collection of three essays written on economic and policy issues related to biopharmaceutical markets in the United States. The first chapter, "Price Elasticity of Demand for Prescription Drugs: Evidence from Medicare Part D's Low-Income Subsidy Program, " measures consumers' behavioral response to changes in the out-of-pocket price of prescription drugs by tracking Medicare Part D beneficiaries as they change Low-Income Subsidy status. In my second chapter, titled "Spending on Unapproved Drugs and Impact of the FDA Unapproved Drugs Initiative on Drug Utilization in the US, " I quantify spending on and utilization of certain marketed, unapproved prescription drugs for Medicare patients in the US and estimate how utilization changes when previously unapproved drugs gain FDA approval. In my third chapter, titled "Biopharmaceutical Market Shortages: Causes and Cures, " I explore primary causes of shortages in the biopharmaceutical space, with a particular focus on how forces at work in common generic sterile injectable drug shortages may be applicable to biologics; I also evaluate potential avenues for strategic regulatory reforms to prevent or mitigate shortages, examining proposed policy and non-policy solutions that could help address the factors contributing to biopharmaceutical shortages in the US.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lei, Catherine |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Mello, Michelle M |
| Thesis advisor | Mello, Michelle M |
| Thesis advisor | Baker, Laurence Claude, 1968- |
| Thesis advisor | Polyakova, Maria A. (Maria Alexandrovna) |
| Degree committee member | Baker, Laurence Claude, 1968- |
| Degree committee member | Polyakova, Maria A. (Maria Alexandrovna) |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Health Research and Policy. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Catherine Lei. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Health Research and Policy. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2019 by Catherine Lei
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