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Transparency Shocker: Biosimilars Are Getting Cheaper—But Hospitals and Insurers Can Make Them Expensive

Drug Channels

Here on Drug Channels , we have long highlighted the boom in provider-administered biosimilars. In contrast to the pharmacy market, adoption of these biosimilars is growing, prices are dropping, and formulary barriers continue to fall. As we demonstrate, health plans pay hospitals far above acquisition costs for biosimilars.

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The Big Three PBMs’ 2024 Formulary Exclusions: Biosimilar Humira Battles, CVS Health’s Weird Strategy, and the Insulin Shakeup

Drug Channels

For 2024, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)—have again each excluded 600 or more drugs from their standard formularies. This year, Humira and its 13 biosimilars will provide the most intriguing formulary drama. All rights reserved.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, September 2024: Inside JNJ’s Gross-to-Net Bubble, Optum Rx’s Private Label Biosimilars, Where Biosimilars Boom, Accumulators vs. Patients, and Steve Collis Retires

Drug Channels

Read more » © 2006-2024 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute , an HMP Global Company. There’s still time to request an invite to the inaugural Drug Channels Leadership Forum. Attendance will be highly limited. We have already begun extending invitations, so apply now to be considered. Click here to view the full agenda.

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The Big Three PBMs’ 2024 Formulary Exclusions: Biosimilar Humira Battles, CVS Health’s Weird Strategy, and the Insulin Shakeup (rerun)

Drug Channels

The 2024 formularies described below should boost biosimilar adoption. As a new Biosimilar Council report shows , Humira retained 99% of market share in late 2023, despite being more expensive than its biosimilars. Click here to see the original post from January 2024. You can find our updated counting below.

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Inside JNJ’s Gross-to-Net Bubble, Optum Rx’s Private Label Biosimilars, Where Biosimilars Boom, Accumulators vs. Patients, and Steve Collis Retires

Drug Channels

Read more » © 2006-2024 HMP Omnimedia, LLC d/b/a Drug Channels Institute , an HMP Global Company. There’s still time to request an invite to the inaugural Drug Channels Leadership Forum. Attendance will be highly limited. We have already begun extending invitations, so apply now to be considered. Click here to view the full agenda.

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What’s Behind CVS Health’s Novel Vertical Integration Strategy for Humira Biosimilars (rerun)

Drug Channels

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for Friday’s Drug Channels Outlook 2024 live video webinar. CVS Health has finally revealed its strategy for biosimilars of AbbVie’s Humira. Click here to see the original post from September 2023.

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The Biosimilar Boom and the Coming Humira Price War (Video)

Drug Channels

As regular readers know, the biosimilar boom for provider-administered drugs has been accelerating. In many therapeutic areas, biosimilars’ market share is approaching 80%. I also offer some thoughts on 2023 and 2024. will face multiple biosimilar competitors. Prices are dropping while adoption accelerates.