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Drug Pricing and Affordability

RX Note

Why Drug Prices Are Rising? Newly developed drugs can be expensive to produce. During patent exclusivity, prices are set higher to offset the high research and development cost (up to billions of dollars). Additionally, many middlemen are involved in the drug supply chain , each taking a cut of the profits.

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March 2024 Newsletter

Safe Biologics

From the post: The HHS Budget in Brief document describes the policy objective simply enough: “ Permit Biosimilar Substitution without Prior FDA Determination of Interchangeability” and clarifies that this means “deem all approved biosimilars to be interchangeable with their respective reference products”.