Lessons From Europe: Orphan Drug Valuations Show Limits Of Cost Effectiveness

Julian Beach, interim executive director of healthcare quality and access at the UK drug regulator, the MHRA, tells the Pink Sheet how the agency is responding to increased efforts to develop bacteriophage therapies.

Exclusive analysis by the Pink Sheet explores how non-submissions by pharmaceutical companies to England’s health technology appraisal body are impacting the availability of medicines on the National Health Service.

A potential MFN drug pricing policy in the US could also lead to a greater push for collaborative action in the EU, such as joint procurement among the member states, says one European industry expert.

The US Medicare Payment Advisory Commission worries that Medicare prescription drug market trends may cause the stand-alone plan portion of the program to “wither away,” which could take the traditional fee-for-service side of Medicare with it.