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STAT+: As Humira biosimilars take over the market, CVS has created a new ploy: the drug ‘rebate credit’

STAT

The biggest enticement that large pharmacy benefit managers offer to the employers that hire them is drug rebates — a steady stream of money sent back to their clients, a tangible symbol of the discounts that PBMs are able to wrangle out of pharmaceutical companies.

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Five things to watch as the Biosimilars market heats up in 2022

pharmaphorum

Congress and the White House to curtail prescription drug prices, many experts continue to point to biosimilars and their promising potential to usher in competition, increase access, and drive down costs for patients—and the U.S. And already in the first quarter of 2022, the FDA approved a third filgrastim biosimilar, Releuko.

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Is India capable of ensuring equitable access to biopharmaceuticals?

Express Pharma

Known as biosimilars, these biopharma products are highly similar to innovator products and have no clinically meaningful dissimilarities, especially in terms of efficacy, safety or quality. Indian pharma players could play a key role in positioning biosimilars as superior products to costly biologics.

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US legislative update: takeaways for European pharma

European Pharmaceutical Review

In the current US Congressional session, Congress has focused heavily on legislation directed at reducing prescription drug prices. The new law will also require drug manufacturers to pay rebates to Medicare if they increase drug prices faster than consumer inflation. 5) monitoring access to biosimilars.

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Market cap growth surges for over half of the top biopharmaceutical companies in 2022

Pharmaceutical Technology

Roche’s market capitalization fell with a decline in sales of their Regeneron-partnered COVID-19 therapy, Ronapreve, and increasing competition from biosimilars for their oncology drugs Avastin, Herceptin, and Rituxan.

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Patents: a necessary evil?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Patents are often described as the ‘lifeblood’ of pharmaceutical companies. 1 However, patent protection for pharmaceutical products is an economic trade-off between providing monopoly rights that incentivise development of future products and permitting higher drug prices to recoup the investment.

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Sandoz spin-off continues Novartis’ focus on innovation; $22bn purchase rumoured

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company told GlobalData PharmSource: “The biosimilar facilities in Austria and Slovenia would continue to manufacture biosimilars for Sandoz under a contractual agreement with Novartis. The company had revenues of $9.6bn both in 2020 and last year. The site employs around 250 people.