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There is low insulin availability in the Philippines and investigators recommend policy and regulatory reviews.

Adjusting for variables, investigators found little difference in disease outcomes for patients who switched to the infliximab originator vs biosimilars.

A study funded by AbbVie finds support for maintaining patients on originator rheumatic agents, such as Humira (adalimumab), rather than switching to biosimilars.

The retrospective, real-world study (N = 353) conducted within the Kaiser Permanente network followed the July 2019 launch of the bevacizumab biosimilar Mvasi.

Investigators evaluated both biosimilar vs originator savings and savings from earlier use of a lower-cost adalimumab biosimilar (Amgevita).

In July 2020 Canada will implement a series of reforms to help bring runaway drug prices under control, panelists said at Virtual ISPOR 2020, the annual meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.

Real world evidence (RWE) was cited differently depending on a number of criteria, leaving the door open to future research on how RWE influences payer decision making for specialty drug plans, said presenting author, Ari Panzer, at the Virtual ISPOR 2020, the annual meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR).

The alternative payment model (APM) doesn’t perfectly balance the competing interests of revenue growth and value-based care, but it has been a learning tool, panelists said at Virtual ISPOR 2020, the annual meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.

Harmonized efforts across global borders and among stakeholders are needed to generate and build acceptance of real world evidence (RWE) to actively aid in health care decision making, panelists said at Virtual ISPOR 2020, the annual meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.

There’s not enough study of the effects of international reference pricing, but it is likely to stifle innovation and create access problems, according to an expert panel at Virtual ISPOR 2020, the annual meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.

Europe has several lessons for the US biosimilar market, according to a pharmaceutical executive who spoke during ISPOR 2019.

Treatment with the biosimilar, the investigators concluded, resulted in comparable, maintained quality of life improvements that were not impacted by a switch from the reference product.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has a considerable economic burden, and costly biologics, are often restricted to cases in which patients fail to respond adequately to methotrexate or other conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, which may be difficult for some patients to tolerate.

During the ISPOR 2019 annual meeting, teams of investigators presented data estimating just how much healthcare systems could save by adopting biosimilar adalimumab for all indications of its reference in adult patients. The results highlighted both the scale of potential savings and the variability among European nations.

Despite their benefits to patients, innovative treatments, including biologics, come at a high cost to the healthcare system, and those in a position to make coverage decisions for these products must grapple with these therapies’ affordability. During the ISPOR 2019 meeting, researchers presented findings on how health plan restrictions could limit orphan drug coverage—and encourage biosimilar use—as a means to manage their budgets.

Research presented at this week’s ISPOR 2019 meeting sheds important light on the impact of biologics on the use of other healthcare resources.

During this week’s meeting of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomic and Outcomes Research, held from May 18 to 22 in New Orleans, Louisiana, researchers presented findings on both the patient attitudes toward granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) therapies and their effectiveness in the prophylaxis of febrile neutropenia.

At the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research’s (ISPOR) 23rd Annual International Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, researchers and speakers highlighted emerging trends in biosimilars. Here are 7 key takeaways from the conference.

As the United States lags behind Europe and other highly regulated areas in terms of biosimilar approval and uptake, research presented during the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 23rd Annual International Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, points to slow market entry and small price discounts of approved biosimilar products as key factors that are holding up cost savings in the US market.

At the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 23rd Annual International Meeting, in Baltimore, Maryland, members of the Biologics and Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium (BBCIC) discussed the ways in which their organization, a not-for-profit entity that conducts postmarketing observational research to monitor biosimilars and novel biologics for efficacy and safety, is working to provide real-world evidence on these products to stakeholders.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, during the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 23rd Annual International Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, researchers from Europe addressed the fact that, while biosimilars have a longer history in the European marketplace than they have in the United States, challenges to uptake still linger.

In a Monday workshop held at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research’s 23rd Annual International Meeting, in Baltimore, Maryland, Mike Blum, MD, MPH, deputy director in the Office of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology at FDA, addressed the role of postmarketing surveillance in the US biosimilars market and the potential role of real-world evidence in interchangeable designations for biosimilars.

Today, at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 23rd Annual International Meeting, held in Baltimore, Maryland, researchers addressed the complexities of using anti–tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Research presented at the 22nd Annual International Meeting of The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research demonstrates gaps in physicians’ education on biosimilar agents.

In a study presented at the 22nd Annual International Meeting of The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, researchers sought to identify physicians’ documented granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) use, with a particular focus on filgrastim-sndz since its entry into the marketplace, and identified a slow US uptake for the biosimilar.