No Single Market, no single prices
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The European Commission is planning to review the “Transparency Directive” on pricing and reimbursement. And so it seems somewhat ironic that the response from the European Industry Body, EFPIA, has been to say that nothing in the directive must compromise the “confidentiality” of pricing arrangements between companies and payers. Is EFPIA forging new ground in double-speak by asking for secrecy to be written into policies on openness?