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Coherus Chief: FTC Must Probe Originators’ Anti-Competitive Tactics

 
• By Aidan Fry

Bundled rebate contracts for biologic brands that are designed to thwart biosimilar competition in the US are anti-competitive practices that deserve Federal Trade Commission action, biosimilar developer Coherus’ chief argues in a newspaper opinion piece.

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The Federal Trade Commission must act on anti-competitive biologics rebate bundling that is stifling biosimilars uptake, Coherus chief Denny Lanfear insists • Source: Shutterstock

Biologics originators are using “a combination of coercive, anti-competitive tactics to box out biosimilars”, an approach that merits investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, Coherus BioSciences'’ president, CEO and chairman Denny Lanfear argues in an opinion piece published this week in the Wall Street Journal.

Arguing that branded biologics firms were being allowed to maintain their monopolies almost a decade after the 2010 Biologics Price...

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