Open AccessAdverse pharmaceutical payment incentives and providers' behaviour: the emergence of GP-owned gateway pharmacies in Taiwan
Author(s) -
Yue Chune Lee,
KuoTung Huang,
YawBin Huang
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
health policy and planning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.608
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1460-2237
pISSN - 0268-1080
DOI - 10.1093/heapol/czm035
Subject(s) - pharmacy , medical prescription , payment , incentive , business , family medicine , medicine , hospital pharmacy , finance , nursing , economics , microeconomics
We investigated whether a 2002 pharmaceutical payment reform policy, which provided adverse incentives, fostered an increase in market share of 'gateway pharmacies' (G-pharmacies--pharmacies owned, operated and located by the same clinics that prescribe medicines); what the financial impact of G-pharmacies to the clinics is; and what factors determine whether a clinic decides to open a G-pharmacy.