药价高一直是国人经常议论的话题,政府部门也十分关注,采取了一些降低药价的措施,有效遏制了药价的虚高问题。笔者认为,也许他山之石可以让我们有所借鉴,看看“老外”是如何控制药价的。在德国,药价直接受参考价格制度干预。其目的是控制第三方付费者(政府或保险公司)的药费支出,从而减少对高价药品的需求(需方)和刺激药品生产者主动降价(供方)。其具体做法是:医生和 The high drug price has always been the subject of frequent discussion by the Chinese people. The government departments are also very concerned about and taken some measures to reduce drug prices, which effectively curbed the issue of drug prices. The author believes that perhaps the stone of other hills can make us learn from it and see how “foreigners” control the prices of medicines. In Germany, drug prices are directly intervened by the reference price system. Its purpose is to control the expenditures of third-party payers (government or insurance companies) to reduce the demand (demand side) for high-priced medicines and to stimulate the initiative price cuts (for suppliers) of drug producers. The specific practices are: doctors and