Gene Therapy Reimbursement: Is Blindness A Bad First Test?

The first gene therapy approval could be coming soon – followed shortly by the first ever gene therapy coverage decision. An Express Scripts executive argues that the tone may be affected by the initial indication.

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Spark Therapeutics Inc.'s voretigene neparvovec is pending at FDA for treatment of a rare form of hereditary blindness and seems likely to become the first-ever gene therapy approval in the US. By default, it will then become the test case for how reimbursement and coverage policy works in the context of gene therapy.

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