On Friday, Disney is offering guests a chance to experience Pixar Pier a day before it opens to the public. The catch? Admission is $299 to spend six hours in the land. The Pixar Pier special event allows guests to experience the attractions, sample food from the land, and shop in the many stores, all […]
India’s $5 billion medical device market may be going through an existential threat. The Indian healthcare industry has been registering a double-digit growth rate, with a CAGR of 17% in the last five years. However, India’s drug pricing authority – the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), notified the Medical Devices Rules, 2017, which has come […]
Publicly posting the price of tonsillectomies, uncomplicated births, and other common procedures can increase business, revenue, and patient satisfaction at outpatient surgery centers, according to a small study. “There’s a growing movement in the United States for transparent and fixed pricing for predictable services…” A report in the American Surgeon suggests that hospitals and other […]
Drug rebates and list prices have been on a race to the top, and patients have paid the price. One solution, according to HHS Secretary Alex Azar? Sweep the rebate system aside entirely. “[E]verybody wins when list prices rise, except for the patients,” and overhauling the pricing system to remove drug rebates would help with […]
Gov. Phil Scott has signed S.92, which features two different approaches to the state’s prescription problem: It requires more detailed financial reporting from insurers and drug companies; and it promotes lower-priced alternatives to expensive specialty drugs called biologicals. The statute — now labeled Act 193 — also calls for a group representing state government, pharmacies, […]
A strict stance on gambling, the difficulty in investing in the stock exchange, the rising prices and interest rates of properties, and the alluring emergence of cryptocurrency. These are some of the leading reasons why digital cash rose like a phoenix in South Korea. … The fiery demand, along with the smothering regulatory framework placed […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar intensified the Trump administration’s attack on drug middlemen Tuesday, even suggesting the elimination of discounts that critics say inflate pharmaceutical prices. President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s blueprint to lower drug prices last month. It includes rethinking rebates, or discounts that firms called pharmacy benefit managers negotiate with […]
We did recognize the novelty of health care delivered by the right caregiver, in a convenient setting, at an affordable price that the clinician and the patient both knew. At the time, these concepts were new to health care and we believed that together they held the potential to have long-term influences on how the […]
New Jersey policymakers intend to alleviate the financial burden of surprise medical bills for emergency services by changing provider medical billing practices. For out-of-network services administered on an “emergency or urgent basis,” the law mandates that providers cannot charge in excess of a patient’s deductible, co-payment, or co-insurance amount applicable to in-network services. Health plans […]
(RTTNews.com) – Coffee retail giant Starbucks ( SBUX ) has raised prices for a cup of coffee between 10 cents and 20 cents on all sizes of brewed coffee at most of its over 8,000 company-operated stores across the U.S. The price of a 12-ounce “tall” cup of brewed coffee now ranges from $1.95 to […]
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The Professional Pricing Society team and I are very proud to announce that we will be returning to Amsterdam for our next great event – The 14th Annual PPS European & Global Pricing Conference & Workshops held 28-30 November. Conference keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities highlight the conference day on 30 November; While 28-29 November […]
This Week in Pricing > 6/16/18
This Week in Pricing is a collection of pricing focused news, thought leadership , events, jobs and professional education resources for pricers. This Edition is brought to you by: Strategic Pricing Solutions Strategic Pricing Solutions, LLC (SPS) is a management consulting firm helping clients with pricing strategies, data analytics, and pricing processes. SPS was formed […]
Conference: Fall Workshops & Conference | Professional Pricing Society
In the video below our President, Kevin Mitchell, gives insight on the conferences we offer. Please make plans to join us and well over 450 of your peers for the best event anywhere. We will be in Dallas, TX, October 23-26, 2018. Don’t miss out on the Early Bird Discount (When 2 people from the same firm register at […]
How to Segment When All Customers Look Alike | Strategic Pricing Solutions
Customer segmentation is a simple concept – identify groups of customers who tend to have similar levels of price sensitivity and set distinct prices for each group. Unfortunately, many companies either think all their customers are the same, or they don’t have enough information to create segments. In particular, we often see this in retail […]
Corporate Pricing Manager | Atkore International
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level Industry: Building Materials, Construction Employment Type: Full-time Job Functions: Management Analyst, Strategy/Planning Job description Atkore International is an industry leader in the manufacture of Electrical Raceway and Mechanical Products and Solutions, serving a wide range of construction, electrical, fire and security and mechanical applications. The Mechanical Pipe & Tube Strategic Business Unit (SBU), a […]
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level Industry: Information Technology and Services, Computer Software, Telecommunications Employment Type: Full-time Job Functions: Management, Manufacturing Job Summary Enhances revenue optimization and profit maximization models for pricing and discounting. Analyzes and interprets impact of potential pricing moves on gross margin and regional, national, and channel pricing levels. Identifies and communicates trends in pricing, and […]
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