Pfizer dropped the US price of Inflectra, its version of Johnson & Johnson's Remicade, just weeks before Merck & Co. launched its infliximab biosimilar, Renflexis.
Update - Wholesale cost of Zarxio will be 15% less than Amgen's Neupogen
A Medicare reimbursement policy proposing that biosimilars have the same pricing code as their reference products could ultimately reduce R&D investment, according to an industry group.
If each biosimilar to a reference product doesn’t get a different HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) code, providers “may not be confident that they they will receive appropriate payment,” Juliana Reed, President of the Biosimilars Forum,...
With the release of four different documents around the pricing and use of biosimilars this week, the US CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is making clear it will fully encourage states to call on prescribers to use cost-effective biosimilars...
