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Drug Pricing: Could Expedited Review Of Competing Brands Create The Desired Pressure?

 
• By Derrick Gingery

Payer groups suggest during FDA's Hatch-Waxman meeting that agency prioritize NDAs moving into the same class to push prices lower.

US dollars and pills

Priority review of innovator products, a valuable tool for brand drug development, also may be able to help FDA fight the drug pricing problem.

Usually it is the brand industry that is considered at least partially responsible for the problem of rising drug prices, which is why the agency held a public meeting July 18 on the Hatch-Waxman Act

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