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The most comprehensive database in the United States on total hip and knee joint replacements (TJRs) and outcomes establishes benchmarks for these surgeries and offers new insights into appropriateness criteria and timing of surgeries that will enable value-based care.
San Francisco, CA—There is no way around the fact that American-style capitalism is at the root of drug development, and the costs associated with that endeavor, according to Alex W. Bastian, MBA, Vice President of Market Access, GfK Bridgehead, San Francisco, CA. GfK provides consulting services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics industries.
San Francisco, CA—Drug reimbursement decisions should incorporate value and cost-effectiveness, suggested Andreas Laupacis, MD, MSc, a palliative care specialist and Executive Director of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during the Special Symposium on Quality at ASH 2014. Dr Laupacis has chaired many drug reimbursement committees in Canada.
San Francisco, CA—The upfront use of plerixafor plus granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) for stem-cell mobilization is more cost-effective than the more widely used cyclophosphamide plus G-CSF regimen, according to a cost analysis from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators that was presented at ASH 2014.
San Francisco, CA—Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD, Professor and Chair of Leukemia, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, did not mince words during his talk at the ASH 2014 special session on drug pricing.
San Francisco, CA—Once Gleevec loses patent exclusivity in 2016, imatinib will become the most cost-effective initial treatment strategy for patients with newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in chronic phase, said Richard A. Larson, MD, Director, Hematologic Malignancies Clinical Research Program, University of Chicago, IL, at ASH 2014.
San Francisco, CA—The cost of paying for cancer impacts the efficacy of treatment, according to S. Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC. High patient cost burden is associated with a 70% higher likelihood of a patient’s nonadherence to treatment, Dr Zafar said at the ASH 2014 special session on drug pricing.
San Francisco, CA—The increase in orphan drug expenditures is expected to slow, said Victoria Divino, Senior Consultant at IMS Health, at ASH 2014. Ms Divino and colleagues evaluated the trends in orphan drug expenditures over time in the United States, calculating the total expenditures for branded orphan drugs from 2007 to 2013 and projected drug expenditures for ­2014 to 2018.
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San Francisco, CA—The introduction of the 3 targeted therapies—lenalidomide, decitabine, and azacitidine—for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) has resulted in a 74% increase in median survival and generates more than $100 billion in value resulting from survival gains for current and future patients, reported Joanna P. MacEwan, PhD, Associate Research Economist, Precision Health Economics, San Francisco, CA, at ASH 2014.
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