A Look At Payers' Early Game Plans For Driving Biosimilar Use

Interviews with US payers suggest that at first they are more likely to focus on promoting biosimilars in treatment-naïve patients, as opposed to switching those on branded drugs, according to a new Datamonitor report.

US payers have a number of mechanisms in their policy toolbox that they can use to steer drug use toward the wave of biosimilars coming on the market – most importantly, prior authorization and requiring that patients try a biologic copy before a branded drug.

As the US has trailed behind Europe in developing a system for approving biologic copies, not to mention lawsuits that have delayed rollouts, biosimilars pricing strategy is still unfolding and payers are still developing their management policies, notes the

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