Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Ahead Of Print: Competition In US Generic Drug Market
In a new article released ahead of print today, Mariana P. Socal and coauthors examine the competition and vulnerabilities in the global supply chain for US generic active pharmaceutical ingredients.
The authors use data from Clarivate Analytics’ Cortellis Generics Intelligence database to analyze generic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) produced globally for the US market during 2020–21.
Socal and coauthors find that "the U.S. manufactures only about 14 percent of APIs necessary for the domestic generic drug market" with India, China, and Italy being the largest API manufacturers.
The authors argue for two key actions to strengthen the supply of APIs in critical markets:
Improved monitoring of API
manufacturing
Enhancing incentives for domestic production of priority APIs.
Are payments to Medicare Advantage plans
inflated? Today in Forefront, Kenneth Thorpe outlines an approach to compare spending under Medicare Advantage versus fee-for-service Medicare.
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