Alnylam Turns To Value-Based Pricing Again For Oxlumo

As with its first two approved RNAi therapies, Alnylam will negotiate value-based agreements with payers, but for Oxlumo, approved in pediatric patients, it will offer a patient need adjustment.

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Alnylam's third FDA approval is the first drug therapy for PH1

Valued-based agreements have become a hallmark patient-access strategy for Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s high priced rare disease RNA-interference therapies, and it has agreements in principle in place already with three US payers for its third approval, Oxlumo (lumasiran).

Approved 23 November, ahead of its US action date of 3 December, Oxlumo is the first approved drug therapy for...

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