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Pricing Debate

Roche Keen To Cut Out The Middle Men On US Pricing

The Swiss giant has been talking to the US government about selling medicines directly to patients.

Stock Watch: Q2 Sales Growth Sparks Diverging Reactions To J&J And Novartis

With drug sector indexes underperforming the broad market in the first half of 2025, investors may have been anticipating tariff-related and other headwinds. But impending loss of exclusivity on key products may be provoking more anxiety at this point.

Novartis Chief Warns Of Fewer Launches And Drug Withdrawals In Europe

Reimbursement rules are disincentivizing innovation, according to Vas Narasimhan.

BMS/Pfizer To Sell Discounted Eliquis Direct – And Other Drugmakers May Follow Suit

Analysts see the new strategy as a way to address pressure from the Trump administration’s most favored nation drug pricing proposals.

Industry Criticizes Dutch Decision To Slash PARP Inhibitor Reimbursement

ZIN, the Dutch health technology assessment body, estimates that the number of patients eligible for treatment with a PARP inhibitor will be halved following a reassessment of drugs in the class.

Denmark Introduces First Confidential Pricing Framework For Primary Care Medicines

Expanded confidential pricing for pharmaceuticals is intended to help manage medicines expenditure, according to Amgros, the procurement agency that will negotiate the prices.

‘Prices Can Remain Contaminated Indefinitely’: Advanz Brushed Aside On UK Liothyronine Appeal

England’s Court of Appeal has upheld a Competition Appeal Tribunal’s 2023 finding that Advanz and its former owner Cinven abused their dominant position in the UK market for liothyronine tablets by charging prices that were many orders of magnitude higher than the benchmark for fair pricing.

Brazil Could Look To Germany, UK And Australia For ATMP Drug Pricing Rules

There is a place for using external reference pricing to set prices of advanced therapies, but any such mechanism must take into account the specificities of the Brazilian market and health system.

HTA Expert Warns Of Escalating Measures If Pharma Fails To Tame Prices

Too many “uninformative” drug trials fail to justify the excessively high prices of many medicines, while there is too much evidentiary uncertainty in European pricing and reimbursement systems, warned Anja Schiel from Norway’s NOMA.

‘Brainless’ US MFN Policy Could Drive Pharma Investment To Europe

European health systems already pay far too much for new medicines and payers will not accept higher prices to compensate for lower US prices, according to Anja Schiel, from NOMA, the Norwegian health technology assessment body.

AstraZeneca Agrees Last-Minute $50m Settlement In Seroquel XR Delay Case

A class action suit alleging AstraZeneca delayed generic competition for Seroquel XR by making illegal agreements that stifled market entry for generic quetiapine competitors has been dismissed after the originator agreed to settle for tens of millions of dollars.

US ‘Most Favored Nations’ Drug Pricing Policy Will Jeopardize Innovation In Europe

The US MFN executive order is the latest in a series of concerning US developments that are contributing to uncertainty for the European pharmaceutical industry, according to France Biotech’s vice president, Alexandre Regniault.