Article | 2/1/2018

Beyond Pricing: Can Biosimilars Compete On Value?

Biosimilar Development
By Brendan Loftus, Wyatt Gotbetter, and Julia A. Gaebler
In recent years, the growth in U.S. drug spending has become a hot-button issue. Data released in 2017 by the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts illustrates which drugs account for the increased spending. In 2016, spend on so-called specialty drugs, a class that contains many biologics, grew by over 13 percent, while spend on traditional drugs actually declined by 1 percent. Five of the top 10 earning drug therapies in the U.S. in 2016 were biologics.
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