caa a22 4500 569235731 CHVBK 20190902110522.0 cr unu---uuuuu 190724e20140901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10198-013-0515-y doi 10.1007/s10198-013-0515-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10198-013-0515-y (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:172004 330 ddc Rischatsch Maurus Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland aut Lead me not into temptation: drug price regulation and dispensing physicians in Switzerland [Elektronische Daten] [Maurus Rischatsch] openAccess eu-repo While most countries separate drug prescription and dispensation to ensure independent drug choice, some allow this combination to increase pharmaceutical access in rural areas or to increase the utilization of pharmacist skills. A drawback of this approach is that dispensing physicians or prescribing pharmacists may be incentivized to increase their own profits through the prescription of cost-inefficient drug packages, leading to an increase in pharmaceutical spending. Switzerland constitutes an interesting example of where dispensing and non-dispensing physicians coexist, permitting a comparison of their prescribing behavior. The present study shows that drug margin optimization is possible under the current drug price regulation scheme in Switzerland. Using drug claims data, empirical findings indicate a 5-10% higher margin per dose for dispensing physicians compared to pharmacists. Cost per dose is 3-5% higher when dispensed by physicians instead of pharmacists. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 Physician dispensing nationallicence Prescribing behavior nationallicence Pharmaceutical pricing nationallicence Physician agency nationallicence 142-005 zora Health Policy, Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) zora The European Journal of Health Economics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 15/7(2014-09-01), 697-708 1618-7598 15:7<697 2014 15 10198 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-013-0515-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-013-0515-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rischatsch Maurus Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Health Economics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 15/7(2014-09-01), 697-708 1618-7598 15:7<697 2014 15 10198 ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/172004/1/ZORA_NL_172004.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 100 1- Rischatsch Maurus ZORA 773 0- European Journal of Health Economics 15(7):697-708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess