‘Achmea and hospitals buy expensive drugs go together’ – nrc.nl

'Achmea and hospitals buy expensive drugs go together' – nrc.nl

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Health insurer Achmea’s twelve hospitals jointly purchase expensive medications, if possible, to negotiate a discount. Writes the Financieel Dagblad this morning.

Buy now approximately ninety hospitals medication itself, and then charge the costs charged by insurers. Participating on the purchasing action parties hope to break through working together. Market The cost of expensive medicines (over 10,000 euros per patient) run by the morning newspaper in the Netherlands to € 1 billion per year.

Peter Braal Achmea says to the FD:

“This market is for us a kind of black box. Hospitals clauses probably discounts, but we see the declarations usually the market return. How much discount will be achieved and what the hospitals do with it, we do not know. We have the idea that in many hospitals could more professional negotiations and that we can achieve. “Better prices by pooling the expertise

The AMC, one of the participating hospitals, let the newspaper know that participation “is not without risks.” Example, it may affect negotiations for other medications, or the discount is divided into three parts: Achmea and hospitals each receive one-third, and the rest is deposited in an innovation fund. This may ultimately less discount remain the hospitals have now. The AMC does it take to be a contribution to the reduction of health care costs.

Drug Manufacturer MSD thinks “that the plan mainly the running costs”, while the services of MSD according to a spokesman wider. “Whoever sends only on price, will soon be yet more expensive, for example, because a lot of unnecessary discarded.”