The term
"drug price increases" refers to an increase in the cost or price of a prescription drug.
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Recent
generic drug price increases have made us concerned and caused us to take positive action to address an opportunity to help a needy patient population.
The company has responded with statements saying that it's not as dependent
on drug price increases as critics have claimed; it has also pointed out that while attention has focused on changes in list prices for drugs, those prices don't reflect the actual cost for insurers, governments and other group purchasers, which typically receive discounts that aren't publicly disclosed.
The Canadian drugmaker has faced intense political and investor scrutiny in the past year for its
steep drug price increases and unorthodox use of a specialty pharmacy.
Add one more name to the new slew of pharma companies trying to counteract the public backlash to
big drug price increases: France's Sanofi, a $ 126 billion firm known for its flagship diabetes and vaccines units.
Pfizer also came under fire
over drug price increases including a record $ 107 million fine by U.K. regulators for hiking an epilepsy treatment's price by 2,600 %.
Express Scripts, the largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S., says it's got a plan to
fight drug price increases: Refuse to pay.
In August, two members of Congress investigating generic
drug price increases wrote to Valeant Pharmaceuticals after that company acquired two heart drugs, Isuprel and Nitropress, from Marathon Pharmaceuticals and promptly raised their prices by 525 percent and 212 percent respectively.
Last year, Saunders introduced a «social contract» with patients declaring that
drug price increases would be kept reasonable, fair, and transparent at the company.
The company couldn't say whether
its drug price increases have typically occurred before or after a generic version launches, but said that once a generic is available, it would expect to lose so much market share that it «needs to increase the price to keep production of the drug viable.»
Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton released a new campaign ad targeting Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) and
its drug price increases.
The firm also provided updates on
its drug price increases — an issue that CEO Brent Saunders, who has pledged to limit branded price hikes to the single digits, has turned into a pet project.
He also paid $ 2 million, Bloomberg Businessweek reported, to buy the sole copy of an album from the rap group Wu - Tang Clan, which led to what Shkreli described as a disagreement with RZA, the group's most prominent member, after
the drug price increase came to light.
Valeant said on Monday it has started a search for a successor to Pearson, who joined the company in 2008 and built it on acquisitions and
drug price increases.