Express Scripts' plan to reimburse at levels according to value of specific indications in inflammatory diseases will create more space for new entrants with proven value.
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read full article ›‘Patients are ready and willing to have conversations’ about trade-offs, National Health Council’s Perfetto says.
read full article ›This past Christmas weekend, Ana Memedovich had her best two days in more than a decade. Her 23-year-old son Mikhail has spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a rare genetic disease that has slowly robbed him of the ability to walk and function independently.
read full article ›Current versions by ASCO, NCCN, and others may not be right for insurers, but they are eyeing new ways to crunch the numbers for cost and outcomes.
read full article ›The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review has invited feedback on its methodology for calculating a drug's recommended price range. Industry response has been critical, but pharma can no longer afford to merely oppose value frameworks. It needs to create strategies for a world in which such frameworks are a permanent and influential part of the pricing and reimbursement landscape.
read full article ›Sales of Novartis' Entresto have been painfully slow and missed their 2016 target of $200m – but the big pharma hopes the heart failure drug's sales momentum will take off next year and it remains confident the first-in-class therapy will eventually reach peak annual sales of around $5bn.
read full article ›Post-FOURIER: what Amgen needs to do to improve Repatha reimbursement.
read full article ›President Donald Trump says drug prices are astronomical and something needs to be done. Pharmaceutical giants have an answer that doesn’t involve lowering list prices: refunding some of the money to insurers if a drug doesn’t work as expected.
read full article ›When it comes to medicines, value is often in the eye of the beholder. A new analysis finds that what multiple sclerosis patients value in their medicines is generally overlooked by payers and doctors. As a result, drug companies subsequently disregard what matters most to patients, according to Real Endpoints, a research firm that conducted the analysis.
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