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Medication costs can be the selling price from the manufacturer, that price together with shipping, the wholesale price, the retail price, and the dispensed price. [3]The dispensed price or prescription cost is defined as a cost which the patient has to pay to get medicines or treatments which are written as directions on prescription by a prescribers. [4]
For third-line treatments, middle- and high-income countries have also faced challenges of expensive drug prices. In the US, the cost of third-line treatment was 41% greater than the cost of first-line treatment, at respective prices of $40,804 per patient per year and $28,861 per patient per year in 2013. [14]
The main difference is that patented drug prices in Canada average between 35% and 45% lower than in the United States, though generic prices are higher. [98] The price differential for brand-name drugs between the two countries has led Americans to purchase upward of $1 billion US in drugs per year from Canadian pharmacies. [99]
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The negotiated drug prices would have to meet the following criteria: The negotiated drug price does not exceed than 120% of the drug's average price in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, and Japan. If that data is not available, then the price must not exceed 85% of the United States average manufacturer price.
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