Archive for June 2019

I caught a report from OptumRx of “Five Drugs Set to Have the Biggest Impact on Payers and Patients.” It’s a glimpse into late-stage pipeline products likely to be high-impact launches. You can find it here: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/optum-5-drugs-set-to-have-biggest-impact-payers-and-patients   It’s always worth looking at the pipeline of pharmaceuticals in development. It’s probably even more worthwhile looking…

There’s a lot of attention going to Acthar Gel and how Medicaid has stripped it of its favorable rebate status, retroactively. Folks ask me, who really cares about a Medicaid rebate case – is this different? And I’ll now say… YES, this case is different.   This Acthar Gel situation can inspire a lot of…

Both the general press and the trade press have delighted in predicting great injury (if not even death) to Mallinckrodt (MNK), maker of a drug called Acthar Gel. The concern relates to Medicaid drug rebates, and a CMS action to impose retroactive drug rebates on the drugmaker that could reach $600M. (The company has many…