Tagged with Pricing

Europe Niklas Hedberg outlines the role of EUnetHTA as both a network and project built up of national HTAs in Europe, the potential for a continent-wide mandate on health technology assessment, the integration of RWE into decision making processes, and how EUnetHTA has adapted to cell and gene therapies.   In…

Europe Merck VP for Global Market Access & Pricing Strategic Planning Marco Rauland examines the trend of collaboration between European countries looking to pool their resources on HTA, procurement, pricing, and reimbursement. Rauland compares the five most advanced such collaboration agreements currently active in Europe and the challenges and opportunities inherent…

Global During the FT Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference earlier this month, three industry leaders spoke about innovative reimbursement models like ‘pay-for-performance’ agreements and the implementation challenges of such initiatives. The session was moderated by FT reporter Donato Mancini and saw the participation of Novartis Oncology president Dr Susanne Schaffert; bluebird…

Switzerland Marcel Plattner, president of Swiss industry association vips discusses pricing, market access and innovation, as well as the continuing attractiveness of Switzerland as a pharmaceutical investment destination.   Attractive conditions must be maintained both for the large pharmaceutical companies – which are well established in Switzerland, but for which the…

Switzerland Intergenerika’s Dr Axel B. Müller makes an impassioned case against the introduction of a reference pricing system in Switzerland, arguing that it would hurt not only the Swiss generics industry but, ultimately, patients. Dr Müller proposes an alternative way, leveraging the pre-existing system to generate healthcare savings, outlines the dynamics…

USA Certara’s Ulrich Neumann looks at the challenges that payment models for cell and gene therapy (CGT) have faced, the multiple models now under development, and why an open and collaborative approach among US healthcare stakeholders is needed if the significant legal and practical barriers are to be overcome.   The…

Canada As the only country in the world to boast a universal healthcare system that does not cover prescription drugs, Canada has been struggling with the concept of ‘national pharmacare’ for a number of years now, with fierce advocates on both sides of the debate.   Canada [has] some of the…

Switzerland Switzerland, rightly regarded as one of the world’s most innovative nations, risks damaging its reputation if innovative new medicines continue to face significant delays and roadblocks in their introduction to the domestic Swiss market. Key stakeholders from pharma industry associations Interpharma and scienceindustries and local affiliate heads for multinationals Bayer…

USA In the aftermath of the fiery first presidential debate between incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic Party rival Joe Biden, we round up the latest on how the latest developments in US politics stand to affect pharma and healthcare. Featured are the two candidates’ proposals for drug pricing reform and Trump’s…

USA Regular PharmaBoardroom contributor Brendan Shaw weighs in on the potential implications for US pharma of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on medicine pricing, its wider impact on other high income economies, and why a Democratic victory in the upcoming presidential election will not see this issue go away.  …

Italy In July 2020, Italy became the first country in the world to mandate pharma companies to disclose data surrounding public subsidies received for the development of new drugs. The decree came almost a year after an Italy-led World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution on transparency of markets for health products, comes…

USA Michael Ciarametaro, VP for Research at the US National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC), outlines issues surrounding the outdated Medicaid Best Price (MBP) and why there is a dire need for payment innovations to provide a way for US payers and manufacturers to share financial risk and ultimately ensure that patients can…