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More Pressure On Pradaxa? US Payers May Narrow Coverage Of NOACs

 
• By Cathy Kelly and Emily Hayes

US payers may increasingly look to leverage the competition among the novel oral anticoagulants by contracting for preferred coverage with two of the leading drugs in the field, rather than all three.

Close up of a white and a pink pills on EKG paper.

Now thatBoehringer Ingelheim GMBH's Pradaxa (dabigatran), Bristol-Myers Squibb Co./Pfizer Inc.'s Eliquis (apixaban), and Johnson & Johnson's Xarelto (rivaroxaban) have comparable labeling, payers are considering contracts with just two in order to increase volume and rebates, Datamonitor Healthcare said in a new report on novel oral anticoagulant (NOAC) pricing, reimbursement and access.

Payers that pursue such a course may want to avoiding switching patients from drugs they are already taking, so they...

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