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How You Should Think About the CBO Thinking About Obesity

ONCE AGAIN, you have a choice. You can read about the economics of obesity through analyst-driven think pieces that dive into frozen vegetable sales and the impact of Ozempic on
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Almost No One Prescribed Obesity Meds Between 2012 and 2019 Actually Filled Their Scrip

This journal article makes the case -- via analysis of claims data -- that patients almost never fill scripts for obesity medicines. The topline is that 10 of every 11
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A New Group Launches to Fight FTC’s Meddling in Biopharma M&A

It’s kind of a slow day today, which has me thinking ahead to the J.P. Morgan Health Care conference in January. My thoughts are swirling around a couple of things:
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A Judge Strikes a Blow Against Copay Accumulators

Egg on my face: yesterday, I suggested that an ICER white paper, prepared for CMS as a part of the price-setting process for Eliquis and Xarelto, showed that those two
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All the IRA: ‘Negotiations’ Begin, Judges Weigh In, Novo Sues, ICER Drop a White Paper

Hoo boy, there is a lot out there. I’m going to focus on the IRA for this edition, but there’s some obesity analysis worth talking about, too. I’ll save that
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The CMS Cost-Control Lab Is Actually Increasing Health Spending. Oof

This Congressional Budget Office report on the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation makes for fascinating reading. As background, CMMI was created as part of the Affordable Care Act, designed
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Most Americans Don’t Want the Government to Go Around Breaking Patents, Bayh-Dole Survey Finds

There is so much going on in the drug-pricing world that the media can’t always track it all down, so -- as much as I respect all the journalism out
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A New Report on Patent Life Is a Reminder: Pharma Isn’t Explaining Itself on IP

There are two ways to think about this report from I-MAK that calculated that just four medicines -- Humira, Rituxan, Avastin and Lantus -- made more than $150 billion in
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ICER Finalizes Its Approach to Value Assessment. Industry Remains Dissatisfied

The United States does not have a government-sanctioned group that makes determination of the value of a given drug (and it still won’t, even after the Inflation Reduction Act is
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There Are Eye-Popping New 340B Numbers Out from Drug Channels

I would love to write pages and pages about the trove of 340B data that Adam Fein dropped over the weekend, but if you really care about the issue, you
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