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Key US Entresto Barriers Are PA Process & Co-Payments – BMT Poll

 
• By Sten Stovall

Uptake of Novartis AG's heart failure drug Entresto in the US has been slow following approval in July 2015, partly due to the time it has taken to secure insurance coverage, but physicians also complain about other insurance barriers, a new survey by BioMedTracker shows.

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A BioMedTracker poll canvassing 23 US-based cardiologists about the main clinical and reimbursement hurdles causing the slow uptake there of Novartis's heart failure drug Entresto (valsartan/sacubitril) suggests insurance issues - namely pre-authorization and high co-payments - are the key causes. More than a third of respondents also listed reluctance to switch patients doing well on current medications, while only 9-13% listed lack of confidence about efficacy, concerns about hypotension, or titration issues as important barriers.

These were the main takeaways from replies by cardiologists to questions about the major barriers preventing use of Entresto in...

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