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Coherus Plots ‘Lowest Price Adalimumab’ With Huge Discount, Ties Up With Mark Cuban

California-Based Firm Unveils Two Major Pricing Strategies For Humira Biosimilar

 
• By Dean Rudge

Coherus BioSciences had teased a “compelling value proposition” for its Yusimry (adalimumab-aqvh) biosimilar to AbbVie’s Humira blockbuster and it has delivered, with a pair of pricing strategies include one though an alliance with self-labelled “disruptor” Mark Cuban.

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With only a month remaining until itself and a host of other sponsors can launch the ‘second wave’ of biosimilars to AbbVie’s Humira (adalimumab), Coherus BioSciences has unveiled plans to offer “the lowest price announced to date of any adalimumab offering in the US” – a mammoth 85% discount to Humira’s $6,922 current list price for a carton of two autoinjectors.

Meanwhile, the California-based firm has joined forces with the Cost Plus Drugs company founded by billionaire entrepreneur and self-labelled “disruptor” Mark Cuban to offer the scheme’s customers Coherus’ Yusimry (adalimumab-aqvh)

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