Perverse reverse price competition: Average wholesale prices and Medicaid pharmaceutical spending
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.08.010
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- Abby Alpert & Mark Duggan & Judith K. Hellerstein, 2013. "Perverse Reverse Price Competition: Average Wholesale Prices and Medicaid Pharmaceutical Spending," NBER Working Papers 19367, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Medicaid; Reimbursement policy; Prescription drugs; Competition;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H57 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Procurement
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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