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STAT+: CMS will use outcomes-based agreements in bid to help Medicaid pay for sickle cell gene therapies

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In response to concerns over multimillion-dollar price tags for new gene therapies for sickle cell disease, the U.S. government on Tuesday announced a long-awaited “access model” designed to blunt the cost that state Medicaid programs would pay for these curative treatments. million and $3.1

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STAT+: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices

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By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development costs into account when it starts to negotiate drug prices — but recent research shows pharma companies ignore those factors when they pick prices for their products. But neither factor has much effect, the studies concluded.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: New York officials press pharmacy chains over abortion pill; Sanders pushes bill for $20 insulin cap

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Enjoy, and see you soon … By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development costs into account when it starts to negotiate drug prices — but recent research shows pharma companies ignore those factors when they pick prices for their products , STAT explains. Two But be safe.

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The best SingleCare reviews of 2023

The Checkup by Singlecare

If there’s a drug you need to take, but you can’t swing the steep price tag, ask your pharmacist to check SingleCare’s prices. We negotiate directly with major pharmacies and supermarkets like CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart for up to 80% off prescription costs. These customers did just that to save big.

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Risk-sharing agreements are growing at a rate of 24%

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This is not the first treatment to come with a high price tag. Most finance-based agreements are discount schemes, including simple discounts, compulsory discounts on ex-factory prices, or other types of discount price negotiations.

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NICE reaches a deal with Roche on access to oral SMA drug Evrysdi

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The cost-effectiveness agency had turned down Evrysdi (risdiplam) in draft guidance published in June, saying it was too expensive, but after negotiations with Roche has reached a deal that will make the drug available to around 1,500 people in England. million price tag make it is the most expensive treatment ever approved for NHS funding.

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Cartherics grants licence for CTH-004 to Shunxi

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Shunxi will also hold an option to negotiate rights to other CAR-T products, which include the licenced IP. CTH-004 is developed by genetically altering patient T cells for inserting a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to target a marker (TAG-72) on ovarian cancer cells and delete genes which are involved in T cell function suppression.

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