Pricing

Everyone’s talking value, but not everyone is willing to pin down the elusive concept. Pharm Exec talks with Steven Pearson, founder of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness Review (ICER), about all things value-based.

The significance of real-world data has been not utilized to the full potential, writes Uttam Barick.

To gain better alignment of coverage and risk, evidence-based arguments are critical during the underwriting process.

A panel of biopharma executives discuss market access and the changing dynamics in reaching physicians and healthcare professionals.

How companies are closing the innovation gap between the lab and the patient, while also creating value for all stakeholders.

Connected ecosystems will change the future of healthcare. Three key value drivers are outlined.

Pharm Exec sits down with AmerisourceBergen supply chain leader Peyton Howell to discuss the latest trends in pharmaceutical distribution, including company efforts to boost efficiency, reliability, and enhance its groundbreaking partnership with Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Jill Wechsler on the need for more efficient methods of documenting treatment benefits in medical practice.

How companies can better integrate valuable data across business functions to meet rising value-chain demands.

There’s a stampede to relate prices to broader health benefits, but little consensus on how to do so, writes Jill Wechsler.

Even though pharma's “dark days” are fading away, the chill of the last few months will not soon be forgotten, writes Tom Norton.

The importance of betting on outcomes, not simply risk sharing, when implementing pharma-payer arrangements. .

Pharm Exec talks value-based healthcare with Professor Bengt Jönsson of the Stockholm School of Economics.

How a broader “value” understanding can benefit brand teams.

What are the chances that Rx price controls will actually take hold in the U.S. in the near future? Tom Norton believes the answer to that question can summed up in one word: California.

Scale has its limits, as the nation’s two largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), Express Scripts and CVS Caremark, are discovering. Stephen Littlejohn reports.

Peter Houston was surprised to find himself discussing Turing Pharmaceutical’s Daraprim in the offices of ClassicRock magazine last week. What’s even more surprising was impact the price hike on the toxoplasmosis treatment was having on a punk record label.

Following the backlash over the Turing Pharma drug price rise, the healthcare industry can not afford to ignore the signals and must carefully consider what to do next, writes Meg Alexander.

A slightly different take on this Turing Pharmaceuticals/Martin Shkreli business?

Kaiser’s August healthcare poll results should put all on high alert given public sentiment and the rhetoric of the political season. Ed Schoonveld sounds the alarm and offers four initiatives to stall the surge towards government intercession on escalating prices.

The clocks are ticking for Express Scripts, writes Stephen E. Littlejohn. Having achieved formidable “size and scale,” how will the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit manager synchronize with value-based health care?

Learnings gleaned from our annual EAB meeting, hosted this year by Dr. David Nash, Dean of the Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health.

Making sense of the new cost-containment model and value-for-money conundrums like those in the HCV space.

Recent developments in the pharmaceutical industry give the strong impression that both payers and industry are struggling to understand what represents “value” to customers, writes Ed Schoonveld.