Pharmacoeconomic Analyses

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Abstract
The issue of prescription drug benefits is being hotly debated in the United States. We can be sure that cost-conscious insurance organizations, both governmental and commercial, will demand an ever stronger role in deciding which drugs they pay for and include in managed care formularies. Pharmaceutical companies can be expected to continue to fund analyses of the cost-effectiveness of their products, and, as legal and political maneuvering in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia has shown, to continue to bring great political and legal pressure on the organizations responsible for deciding the relative merits of their products.1-3 Much of the battle will revolve around measurements of the cost-effectiveness of new drugs.