By E. M. (Mick) Kolassa

Components of Pharmaceutical Pricing indicates account managers, product managers, advertising researchers, and different practitioners within the pharmaceutical tips to enhance your advertising and marketing and pricing talents. by means of describing the method for attaining pricing judgements and clarifying the surroundings of pharmaceutical advertising and marketing, this e-book demystifies the world of pharmaceutical pricing and exhibits the right way to use costs to seize the price of goods rather than reducing their worth.

Recent pharmaceutical pricing judgements have mirrored uninformed, emotional, and momentary pondering. components of Pharmaceutical Pricing indicates you ways to prevent all these judgements, assisting you refine your pricing abilities and elevate your firm's profitability by:

  • showing you the way to figure out the worth of a pharmaceutical product
  • outlining a pricing philosophy that addresses the politics and difficulties you will encounter
  • tracing the pricing study process
  • examining the function of cost within the determination to buy, prescribe, or use pharmaceuticals
  • addressing the demanding situations dealing with the within the future

As Dr. Kolassa explains within the Foreword, parts of Pharmaceutical Pricing goals to “help create inside [pharmaceutical] organizations, and the undefined, whatever that has been lengthy overdue--the skill to 'price on purpose,’to make pricing judgements which are much less emotional and extra trained. This quantity doesn't comprise the entire solutions, yet i feel it does pose a number of the correct questions, to assist these charged with pricing to make expert judgements, to appreciate the most probably implications in their pricing activities prior to taking them. this knowledge should still result in larger, extra ecocnomic pricing within the industry.”

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Earned Margin. Earned margin is a term used by some retail pharmacists to describe the difference between the AWP and the actual product cost, as paid to the wholesaler or manufacturer. Ex-Factory Price. This is the actual selling price, before discounts, charged by the manufacturer (see WAC). Gross Profit (Margin). The difference between acquisition or production cost of a product and its selling price is known as the gross profit margin. The gross profit margin does not include other costs of doing business.

A mass merchandiser such as Wal-Mart or K-Mart will sell at prices below those of the chains because its pharmacies are seen as traffic builders for the stores. It is not uncommon for the mass retailers to establish policies forbidding their pharmacies to operate at a profit because higher prices might result in attracting fewer customers to the store. Retail prices are often determined on the basis of the most common package size for a product, usually packages of 100. , 500s) and that package is available at a discount when compared with the package of 100, the retail customer, or repackager, will buy the product in 500s but sell it at the 100 count price.

The most common terms offered are a 2% discount if the full bill is paid within 10 days of receiving the invoice. Thus a wholesaler that pays the regular ex-factory price actually pays only 98% of that price if it pays E. M. (Mick) Kolassa 31 within 10 days. The wholesaler that sells at cost plus 3%, then, is actually charging a markup of roughly 5%. Chargeback. This is the difference between the price a wholesaler pays a manufacturer (see WAC) and a lower contract price that has been negotiated by a hospital or managed care organization.

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