Teva Lawsuit Labels The IRA A ‘Fiction’ As Austedo Opens Up To Price Negotiations

Pricing Scheme ‘Hurts Generics And Biosimilars, Weakens Whole Healthcare System’

Teva has filed a complaint in Washington D.C. challenging certain aspects of the drug-pricing provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act as well as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance, claiming that the statute will disrupt the balance of innovation and affordability.

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Teva cited its “unique position as a developer of innovative medicines and high-quality generic drugs and biosimilars,” as it sued the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services challenging certain aspects of drug-pricing provisions within the Inflation Reduction Act, which the Israeli firm declares “hurts not just the manufacturers of generics and biosimilars, but also weakens the US healthcare system as a whole.”

Meanwhile, in its suit Teva also attacked guidance issued by the CMS that, the firm says, “purports to implement” the IRA, “re-writing two of the critical limitations imposed by Congress...

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