Germany: New pricing rules set to negatively impact drug sales both domestically and internationally

Jan. 20, 2011 - PRLog -- According to the report “Germany Pharmaceutical Market Overview” available at http://www.piribo.com/publications/country_reports/germany_pharmaceutical_market_overview.html the German prescription pharmaceutical market was valued at $38.3 bn in 2009, with an annual growth rate of 4.4% between 2008 and 2009. However, future market growth will be hampered by the newly introduced price negotiation requirements in addition to raised rebates for patent protected drugs, with an impact on other countries that use Germany as a reference market.

The 241 page report provides an overview of socioeconomic and demographic trends, healthcare system, regulation, pricing and reimbursement and intellectual property in Germany. It assesses the size of the Germany pharmaceutical market by prescribing setting, therapy area, leading brands and by leading companies. The report also examines the Germany generics and biosimilars landscape in terms of regulatory issues, level of penetration, key players and degree of brand erosion. It quantifies the R&D and manufacturing infrastructure for the leading pharmaceutical companies, including key metrics and domestic M&A analysis

The report “Germany Pharmaceutical Market Overview” is available from Piribo at:
http://www.piribo.com/publications/medical_devices/worldw...

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