Drug Pricing: With "Value" Debate In Full Swing, ICER’s Influence Grows

The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review has invited feedback on its methodology for calculating a drug's recommended price range. Industry response has been critical, but pharma can no longer afford to merely oppose value frameworks. It needs to create strategies for a world in which such frameworks are a permanent and influential part of the pricing and reimbursement landscape.

“We are not out to strangle the industry,” insisted Steven Pearson, president and founder of ICER (the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review), during an interview in late 2015. “We’re just out to create a framework for having a dialogue around drug price and value,” he continued.

One year on, and that dialogue is certainly in full swing in the US. Industry might well be in the...

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