Pricing Reforms Prompt Canadian Business Rethink

Roche Has Withdrawn Tecentriq From HTA Processes

The R&D based pharmaceutical industry would welcome changes to guidelines that will operationalize controversial new pricing regulations in Canada but industry experts say more is needed.

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Pharmaceutical companies in Canada have responded to controversial new pricing regulations by cutting staff and withdrawing products from health technology appraisal processes. Potential changes to draft guidelines that set out how the regulations will work in practice will be well received but should go further, says Arvind Mani, founder of Morse, a Canada-based consultancy firm.

The Patented Medicines Prices Review Board (PMPRB), which sets ceiling prices in Canada, told the Pink Sheet that it was...

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