Reversal Of Fortune For German Pharma As Bundesrat Supports Enhanced Drug Price Transparency
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Germany’s upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, has decided after considerable wrangling that negotiated and discounted reimbursement prices of drugs sold in Europe’s biggest market will be made public, virtually ensuring that further price erosion will spread across the region.
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