Drug Pricing Avoids The Limelight During State Of The Union Address

The Trump Administration’s rhetoric and policy approaches illustrate the confusion that often arises between efforts to cut drug prices and cutting spending.

Highlights from Day Three of the BIO International Convention include the realities of MFN pricing, AstraZeneca's R&D plans for obesity, the need for resources for the FDA's rare disease hub and reactions to the Commissioner's National Priority Review Voucher program.

There is a place for using external reference pricing to set prices of advanced therapies, but any such mechanism must take into account the specificities of the Brazilian market and health system.

Too many “uninformative” drug trials fail to justify the excessively high prices of many medicines, while there is too much evidentiary uncertainty in European pricing and reimbursement systems, warned Anja Schiel from Norway’s NOMA.