Novartis Woos Payers With Data Showing Entresto Earns Its Keep

With Entresto sales slowly climbing to $53m in third quarter, Novartis releases data supporting value of heart failure drug in preventing costly hospitalizations at the annual American Heart Association meeting.

As part of a package supporting its sluggish selling heart failure drug Entresto with payers,Novartis AG released additional data showing that the drug reduces the rate of heart failure hospitalizations and deaths related to the condition compared to the standard of care enalapril.

The FDA's approval of Entresto, which combines the neprilysin inhibitor sacubitril with the angiotensin receptor blocker valsartan, in July 2015 was supported by robust outcomes data in the PARADIGM-HF study,...

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