AbbVie Wary Of IRA Potential Impact On Struggling Imbruvica

While AbbVie tries to estimate which of its products might fall into CMS price negotiations, it is seeing lower-than-expected sales erosion for Humira and continued growth for Skyrizi and Rinvoq.

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AbbVie's projections of Humira sales erosion are holding up well • Source: Shutterstock (Valeriya Zankovych/Shutterstock)

AbbVie Inc. reported solid second quarter 2023 financial performance on 27 July, with US biosimilar erosion for Humira a bit lower than the company projected while immunology successors Skyrizi and Rinvoq showed strong growth and price stabilization in the US. But CEO Rick Gonzalez pointed to one of AbbVie’s struggling core products, Imbruvica, as one that could be a target of the first Medicare price negotiations this fall under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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