In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Tim Horn and Sean Dickson propose changes to the current system of drug pricing regulation focusing on four areas: Pricing formulas Price increase penalties Pool pricing guidelines Reporting transparency Read the full article here. About the Health Affairs/IVI Featured Blog Series: Drugs and Medical Innovation [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Jerry Avorn sums up the status quo in medical regulation and evidence-based prescribing. Avorn uses his commentary to call out flaws in the 21st Century Cures Act, illustrate how the appointment of a new FDA Commissioner may influence "right-to-try" laws, and discuss the promise [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Robert Bohrer addresses the current system in place for the accelerated approval of novel drugs and notes the delicate issues that regulators are confronted with. Bohrer suggests that a new "conditional approval" approach may be the best compromise and provide a way forward. Read [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Peter Bach, Zachary Helms, and Nancy Yu leverage public data to estimate both the premiums that companies earn and the amount they spend on research, challenging pharmaceutical companies' claims regarding R&D spending. Read the full article here. About the Health Affairs/IVI Featured Blog Series: Drugs [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, the National Pharmaceutical Council's Robert Dubois (also member of IVI Strategic Advisory Panel) and Kimberly Westrich examine current value assessment models' readiness for use in healthcare decision-making. Applying NPC's 35 Guiding Practices, they conclude that all existing frameworks possess individual strengths and weaknesses, but [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Robert Galvin and Troyen Brennan make the case for employers and pharmacy benefit managers to challenge drug manufacturers' pricing models as a means of keeping costs in check, particularly in regard to launch prices. They suggest a strategy in which employers and pharmacy benefit [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Deborah Mazer and Gregory Curfman focus on provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act that will impact the FDA's oversight of approved drugs and medical devices, including subtle changes to the approval procedures and a provision that permits-off label promotion of health care economic [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Karl Lauterbach, John McDonough, and Elizabeth Seely suggest that Germany's AMNOG (the Act to Reorganize Pharmaceuticals Market in the Statutory Health Insurance System or Arzneimittelmarktneuordnungsgesetz) model should be applied to U.S. drug pricing policy. Read the full article here. About the Health Affairs/IVI Featured Blog Series: [...]
In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Rachel Dolan looks at resistance to specific policies that attempt to move towards value-based reimbursement. Despite widespread bipartisan agreement that Medicare Part B should be paying for value, roadblocks are still formidable. Read the full article here. About the Health Affairs/IVI Featured Blog Series: Drugs [...]
IVI's Director of Research, Jason Shafrin, contributes to an op-ed for The Washington Post's "In Theory Blog: How we should pay for cures, according to economics." In the commentary, Dr. Shafrin uses the example of a cure for Alzheimer's disease to illustrate how various stakeholders demand very different pricing structures, and how IVI is working to [...]
