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FDA Commissioner’s Rx For US Biosimilars Market: Reform Contracting Practices And Payment Models

 
• By Sue Sutter

In unveiling the agency’s Biosimilar Action Plan, FDA's Gottlieb continued his pattern of provocative remarks by criticizing brand company practices and payment models that impede biosimilar competition and could ultimately undermine innovation. He also called for more action by the Federal Trade Commission and downplayed the impact interchangeability could have on biosimilar uptake. 

Gottlieb at Bookings July 2018
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb had some choice words for innovators at the unveiling of the Biosimilar Action Plan at the Brookings Institution.

Brand company tactics aimed at keeping biosimilars off the market could have the unintended consequence of undercutting public support for innovation, in addition to squelching the fledgling biosimilar industry, US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb believes.

In a July 18 speech at the Brookings Institution, Gottlieb once again harshly criticized contracting and rebating practices, as well as reimbursement models, that he sees as key short- and

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