The financial barrier to access medicines is causing wide inequalities in the capacity to purchase high quality medicines as shown by the fact that patients in the highest socio-economic group spent on the prescribed medicines on average 74% more that those in the poorest one.
This showed that combination therapy containing at least one patented medicine is on average priced 70% higher than combination therapy containing only generic alternatives.
Researchers found that emergency medicine physicians on average had a markup ratio of 4.4 compared to the Medicare allowable amount—resulting in 340percentt more in charges.
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. prices for the world's 20 top-selling medicines are, on average, three times higher than in Britain, according to an analysis carried out for Reuters.
Our results suggest, first, that prices of generics and similar medicines are, on average, half those of originator brands.
As a result of improvements in public health and medicine, all Americans, on average, live much longer than when we elected our first president 227 years ago.
However, when looking at individuals using Chinese medicine in combination with other segments, it's interesting to see many made the most frequent visits to Chinese medicine clinics; and on average, they had higher MFPC, signaling more concentrated care, compared with those made the most frequent visits to public or private western medicine segments.
Yet, we continue to spend more on drugs — in part because of the increasing use of so-called biologic medicines, which cost, on average, 22 times as much as ordinary drugs.
Last week Pfizer announced that the list prices for 10% of its medicines would increase, on average, by 5%.
Secondly, it is a common experience that particular patients do particularly well on particular medicines; while medicines may be equally efficacious on average, individual responses to the medicine can be dramatically different [ 43- 45].
