In an unprecedented move, GBR’s (United Kingdom) NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) recently recommended NHS (National Health Services) funding of $GSK’s gene therapy STRIMVELIS™ for an ultra-orphan immunodeficiency disorder ADA-SCID1 – also dubbed the “Bubble Baby Syndrome” – at EUR 594,000 (ex-VAT2 price, about USD 700,000). Importantly,…
CBPartners’ holistic international reference pricing (CHIRP) app is updated and available for download! CHIRP is a one-stop, on-the-go reference guide, as well as your source for the latest from CBPartners’ global thought leaders and Global Health Advisory Board – all in the palm of your hand! FEATURES: Updated reference pricing…
October is breast cancer awareness month, and in light of our recent PDx (PD1 / PD-L1) analysis, our team decided to take a closer look at the potential for these paradigm-shifting therapies to make a difference for patients diagnosed with breast cancer. While no PDx brand has yet achieved marketing authorisation…
As a class, manufacturers of PDxs (PD1s / PD-L1) are enjoying great success when it comes to marketing authorisation, with four of the five brands achieving multiple FDA and EMA approvals. These groundbreaking therapies display versatility across tumour types, which gives patients great hope (just ask former President Jimmy Carter)…
In 2015, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was holding strong in his contempt for austerity and desire to flee the euro return to the drachma – going so far as to state that “the bailout choices and reforms imposed upon Greece (GRC) by its creditors have been akin to placing…
Update (04 October 2017): The FDA approves generic drug competitor $MYL for high-dose COPAXONE. Yet another drug pricing debate has started to brew in the USA, with its epicentre right in DC. Two Democratic members of the US House (Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Peter Welch (D-VT)), announced that they are launching an…
In April 2017, AIFA (Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, Italian Medicines Agency) released a new algorithm to assess and evaluate the level of innovativeness of new drugs aimed to get reimbursement by the SSN (Sistema Sanitario Nazionale, National Health System) through the EUR 1 billion fund made available by the Italian…
NOTE: this post is the second of three assessing $ESRX’s new INSIDERX programme. Be sure to read the first posting in this series. $ESRX’s INSIDERX programme made waves when it was announced as a means for the uninsured to gain similar levels of discounting to those achieved by the PBM…
Thomas Paine wrote in his presciently titled piece, The American Crisis, that ‘these are the times that try men’s souls’. Although chances are low that he had value frameworks in mind, Mr. Paine likely understood that, in a country that so cherishes liberty, equality may from time to ti me…
The federal political pressure on drug pricing may have stalled on Washington gridlock, but as we previously covered here at CBPartners, it is driving real change at the state level. State lawmakers are better positioned to develop laws that regulate pharmaceutical stakeholders, given the more manageable scope of state markets,…