Impact of delisting OTC medicines from reimbursement list
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Objectives This analysis aims at determining how many OTCs were reimbursed before the exclusion and how many of them and under what conditions of reimbursement remained to be reimbursed. The second objective of the analysis is to estimate the financial effect of exclusion on the payers and patients. The third objective is to describe what type of OTCs are reimbursed and under what conditions of reimbursement, as well as to compare annual costs of reimbursed OTCs versus annual costs of prescription-only medicines (POM).
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