The Price Is Right: Amgen Defends Repatha At $9,669 Against More Critics

 
• By Emily Hayes

Using a higher event rate typical of real-world, high-risk CV patients, Amgen asserts Repatha is cost effective at $9,669, the going discounted rate in the market. But criticism over the PCSK9 inhibitors' cost-effectiveness continues.

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A new study funded by Amgen Inc. finds that the company's PCSK9 inhibitor Repatha is cost effective at the annual net price of $9,669, though an editorial accompanying the study questions whether the findings are based on "best-case scenarios" and feeds into a familiar refrain that the class still costs too much.

Results from the cost-effectiveness study were published by investigators from Amgen's FOURIER outcomes study of Repatha (evolocumab) in the Journal...

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