Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/175602 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] Health Economics Review [ISSN:] 2191-1991 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 35 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-8
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Although personalized medicine is becoming the new paradigm to manage some diseases, the economics of personalized medicine have only focused on assessing the efficiency of specific treatments, lacking a theoretical framework analyzing the interactions between pharmaceutical firms and healthcare systems leading to the implementation of personalized treatments. We model the interaction between the hospitals and the manufacturer of a new treatment as an adverse selection problem where the firm does not have perfect information on the prevalence across hospitals of the genetic characteristics of the patients making them eligible to receive a new treatment. As a result of the model, hospitals with high prevalence rates benefit from the information asymmetry only when the standard treatment is inefficient when applied to the patients eligible to receive the new treatment. Otherwise, information asymmetry has no value. Personalized medicine may be fully or partially implemented depending on the proportion of high prevalence hospitals.
Subjects: 
Endogenous reference price
Exogenous reference price
Off-patent drug
Generic drug
Pharmaceutical expenditures
JEL: 
I11
I18
L13
L51
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Document Type: 
Article

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