Seven out of nine high cost prescription drugs with significant price increases from the fourth quarter of 2016 through the final quarter of 2018 were not supported by evidence of any additional net clinical benefit, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review concludes in a report released 8 October.
Drugs With ‘Unsupported Price Increases’ Add $5bn To US Spending – ICER
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America describes report as “flawed” and designed to advance the “false narrative that spending on medicines in increasing.”
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