Pharmaceuticals: Drug Sales and Retail Prices

You may begin with:

Bloomberg

• Provides data on Average Wholesale Price, drug sales, and revenue forecast.

• Tip: to search for prescription drug prices, use the function: BI PHRM RX <GO>, for drug sales estimates and earnings: EEO PRODUCT <GO>, Or begin with the industry dashboard use BI PHRMG <GO>

Cortellis

• Provides data on drug retail prices, drug sales, and sale forecasts.

• Allows us to search for drug sales, and sale forecasts by date range, drug name, etc.

• Access is available to HBS AND HU students, staff and faculty onsite at Baker Library (users must be logged in by Baker staff).

Statista

• Quick statistics on the topics.

• Tip: May use the Research AI tool to quickly identify tables/charts on the topic.

Additional resources

• Manufacturer reporting of Average Sales Price (ASP) data

  Provides quarterly datasets by CMS.gov

• OECD Data Explorer

  Contains high level pharmaceutical statistics.

• SimplyAnalytics

  After login, specify location > select Data tab > select Consumer Behavior > search for "drugs" and select the data of interest. Data can be displayed on a map or a table.

• WHO Medicines Price Information

  Sources collated by the World Health Organization