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Could Combining Strategies Be A Way Forward To Pay For Gene Therapies?

 
• By Alaric DeArment

A report by ICER and Tufts Medical Center’s NEWDIGS said a single strategy cannot adequately address payment challenges for all payers.

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With the number of US Food and Drug Administration-approved gene therapies set to balloon from fewer than 20 to about 100 by the early 2030s, the challenges of paying for them are bound to balloon as well, with total list-price spending potentially equivalent to the gross domestic products of some small countries. A recent report on the reimbursement models for gene therapies by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) and Tufts Medical Center’s NEWDIGS looks at the potential to combine strategies like reinsurance and rebates.

Pricing watchdog group ICER collaborated with Tufts Medical Center’s NEWDIGS (New Drug Development Paradigms) – an outcomes research-focused think tank...

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