Can The Pipeline Soothe A US Generics Pricing Headache?

Diversified Businesses Provide Sustainability After Challenges Of 2021

Following a year marked by aggressive pricing pressures weighing down on revenues and margins – pressures that “intensified beyond historical norms and our recent expectations,” as one company put it – the first quarter of 2022 provided some green shoots of optimism, albeit for companies that have been able to shift resources to more complex assets.

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Pricing issue dominates in the US • Source: Shutterstock

After several years of relative price stability for US generics companies, following the painful fallout from the most recent cycle in 2016-17 that rocked manufacturers big and small, the thorny issue of pricing pressure began to rear its head again last year.

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