High costs of new drugs Carin A. Uyl-de Groot, PhD Professor of health technology assessment iBMG/iMTA, Erasmus University Rotterdam Thanks to Maureen Rutten and Marc Koopmanschap

Content Introduction Chronology of drug innovation The life cycle of a drug Pricing of new drugs Challenges facing several stakeholders Reimbursement 2

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Examples prices of new drugs Pompe disease: Myozyme: - Cost: Euro 500,000 - Outcome: difficult to assess - ICER: around 1 mln Melanoma: Vemurafenib: -Progression free survival: 5.3 vs 1.6 months mnt months -Cost: euro per month Melanoma: Ipilimumab: % patients benefit -Cost: € ,- per patient -Budget impact: €20-40 mln 5

6 System objectives Quality of care Sustainability Equity Policy goals in health care Goal: Ensuring affordable and equitable access for (all) patients to effective medicinces in a sustainable manner

Policy goals, criteria and HTA aligned? GoalPolicy criterionin HTA? Quality of careHealth gainCure Yes (QALYs) Care ??? SustainabilityBudget impactYes (cost/BI) Equity“disease severity” (“need indicator”) Yes, good enough? Trade off Q vs SCost-effectivenessYes (ICER)

Cost-effectiveness vs drug reimbursement many EU countries: CE a formal reimbursement criterium, BUT: no country (except UK) has strict & transparant threshold (range) for acceptable cost per QALY NL : only 30% (=19/63) of drugs with positive 1B decisions had pharmacoeconomic evidence!! (Franken et al 2012) Many exemptions: 24 orphan drugs, 7 HIV drugs (Scotland stricter on PE evidence) 4 “insufficiently founded” evaluations got a positive decision

HEALTH CARE EDUCATION ROADS SECURITY HOUSING ENVIRONMENT DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT AIDEMPLOYMENT INTEREST

10 Development drug expenditure (in mln), Expensive drugs Other drugs

Question: Why are the prices of new drugs high? Development process Succes rate Uptake of innovation Reimbursement 11

Pfizer -- and Medical Devices and Technologies Development phase: a long and winding road to registration 12

Development phase From discovery to patient Patent application 1 medicinal product Acute toxicity Pharmacology Chronic toxicity Phase I clinical trials Phase II Phase III Registration and transparency Price Reimbursement Pharmacovigilance 05 years10 years15 years20 years Patent expiry 10 years of research 2 to 3 years of administrative procedures Source: “Recherche & Vie”, LIM (AGIM) 13

Life cycle of a drug Time → ↑ Sales developmentintroduction growth maturity decline 14 Ellery and Hansen, Pharmaceutical Lifecycle management, Wiley 2012

Development phase: clinical trials (phase 1 to 3) in humans Phase 1 First state of testing in humans Investigating safety volunteers Phase 2 Investigating efficacy patients Phase 3 Confirm efficacy results patients Comparison with current gold standard Phase 4 FDA review/Phase 4 trials (post registration) Safety surveillance ‘real life’ patients € €€ 15

Development phase Discovery and development of a successful drug YEARS INTRODUCTION /REGISTRATION DEVELOPMENT BASIC RESEARCH POST-MARKETING SURVEILLANCE Phase IV CLINICAL TEST (HUMANS) Phase I to III PRECLINICAL TEST (ANIMALS) SYNTHESIS, EXAMINATION & SCREENING ,000 – 10,000 QUANTITY OF SUBSTANCES 16

Costs of development new molecular entity (NME) Estimation: 1 billion euros Cost factor: R&D (including failures): 17% Manufacturing Marketing and promotion: 23% More is spent on marketing than on R&D 17

Costs per clinical phase in percentage of total R&D, period PhasePercentage of total R&D Pre-clinical (incl. Basic research)8% Phase I12% Phase II20% Phase III60% 18

Declining number of NME approved by FDA Source: 19

Introduction phase Differences in the uptake of innovation 20

Growth phase Slower rate of growth than typical industrial product –Switching patients to other drugs may be risky –Me-too’s or established drug classes are doing well –Promotion limited –Health authorities cautious about letting new drug be introduced initially to a broad population because of safety issues –More and more biologics that target multiple smaller indications, which are introduced successively over the life of a drug –Cost containment policies affecting supply, demand, price 21

Growth phase: International Reference Pricing (IRP) is used in some form in most European countries IMS HEALTH Pharmaquery Sept

OECD (2011), “Pharmaceutical expenditure”, in Health at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing. Growth in real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure, (or nearest year) 23

Challenges 1.Pipeline NME drying 2.Cancer: need for more therapeutic value (not only end of life drugs) 3.Higher development costs 4.Increased regulatory requirements because of safety concerns 5.Tougher environment for pricing, reimbursement, listing 6.Increased competition 7.Earlier generic drugs 8.Poor image 24

Tougher environment for pricing, reimbursement, listing Regulatory Quality Efficacy Safety Pricing, Reimbursement Comparative effectiveness in real world Cost-effectiveness (trial-based and model-based) Purchase, listing Budget impact analyses 25

What is our “Product”? - Product Positioning A molecule is not a product…..for price estimation purposes we must define its “positioning” “Positioning” (here) = place in the treatment regimen Line of therapy? Target Patients? Prevention or treatment? Monotherapy or combination? Positioning variables…different implications for….. Reference Price Positive Differentiation Value Negative Differentiation Value Perceived Value V R D

Price Optimization across countries US France Germany 1. Assess individual market price/demand dynamics UK Canada etc 3. Implement and maintain a Global Pricing Strategy  Global floor or corridor  Launch sequence  Price targets Cohesive Global Strategy 2. Overlay global context and optimize Individual Demand curves Optimization Modeling Cross Market Interactions

Recent turbulence, turning point in NL? “CvZ to delist 2 expensive ultra-orphan drugs” (Pompe/Fabry, after 5 yrs conditional reimbursement) Fueled discussion (“finally….”) => Ethical to stop treatment? Ethical to value health monetarily? Ethical to deny the scarcity of resources? Better options to limit cost explosion? Why are these orphan drugs so expensive? Negotiate on prices with industry? 9/2012 CvZ, struggle-> advise “reimburse”, but not in regular benefit package…………

Recent turbulence ultra orphans in NL Argument contra reimbursement: Cost per QALY too high (up to 1 mln € per QALY) Argument pro: For subgroup that benefits it is established treatment for several years (“acquired right on care”) Lesson: maybe conditional reimbursement of these orphan drugs 5 years ago was unwise?

A proposal for ultra orphans in NL Say: WTP/QALY for normal drugs up to 80,000 € per QALY, Say: for ultra orphan drugs WTP 300,000 € per QALY For sub group that really benefits say a gain of 0.75 QALY per year Given max WTP/QALY -> max drug costs per year: = 225,000 € (as 225,000/0.75= 300,000). Message of reimbursement authorities to producers: “Don’t develop drugs with annual treatment costs of more than 225,000 €, we will not even allow conditional reimbursement”.

Reimbursement (1) Coverage with evidence NL: final reimbursement decision after 4 years, based on cost-effectiveness in daily practice and appropriate drug use (extended in 2013); Quite comfortable arrangement for producers: 4 years a high price (t=0-4, risk for payer);

Reimbursement (2) Volume-price agreements (France ea) sales Y lower price P2 Advantages: less uncertainty on budget impact industry can cover R & D costs (Price1*Volume1) Disadvantages: does not address value for money negotiations not transparant

Reimbursement (3) Contract : reimbursement depend on treatment success (outcomes based risk sharing, Pay for performance) August 2012 CVZ omalizumab (severe asthma) Advantages: –“no cure, no pay” => value for money –application on best patient sub groups –after contract new decision possible Disadvantages: –transaction costs contract –clear outcome indicator crucial –cost of monitoring/registration

Equal access: dynamics in treatments multiple myeloma (I)

Equal access: non small cell lung cancer patients receiving 1st line Iressa or Tarceva (II) 25% - 50% <25% 50% - 75% >75%

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