Wednesday, August 17, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Accelerated Approval Of Cancer Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration offers an accelerated approval process for drugs that treat life-threatening conditions,
including cancer.
They find that drugs that complete the accelerated approval process and positive confirmatory trials,
indicating efficacy, do not experience commensurate increases in prices.
"Regardless of the statistical model, there was no systematic relationship between price and obtaining a positive confirmatory trial during the study period," the authors write.
Frank and coauthors argue that this lack of incentive indicates a market failure. Their results demonstrate that there are few economic payoffs to undertaking costly activities such as confirmatory trials.
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Forefront, Donald Crane and George Halvorson propose two paths for policy makers working on Medicare reform.
Sumit Agarwal and coauthors write that the elimination of cost sharing for vaccines in Medicare in the Inflation Reduction Act is long overdue, but it could still fall short of substantially improving access and equity.
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