The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has urged the Supreme Court to shoot down an appeal by Pfizer challenging the U.S. Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS).
After an appeals court snubbed Pfizer’s proposed copay assistance programs for costly heart meds Vyndaqel and Vyndamax, the New York pharma turned to the Supreme Court. Now, as it awaits the justices’ decision on whether they'll hear the case, Pfizer’s bid to challenge U.S. anti-kickback laws has garnered the attention of industry giants.
Pfizer is taking a hotly-contested kickback case all the way to the Supreme Court, with a petition filed late last week seeking to overturn a lower court decision that barred the Big Pharma from providing financial assistance to help Medicare beneficiaries access its drug for a rare and fatal cardiac condition.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today the publication of a post-hoc, interim analysis showing that treatment with VYNDAQEL® (tafamidis meglumine) / VYNDAMAX® (tafamidis) provided a clinically significant survival benefit at five years for patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM). This analysis from the Phase 3 Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Clinical Trial (ATTR-ACT) and its long-term extension (LTE) study was published in Circulation: Heart Failure.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced today the publication of a post-hoc, interim analysis showing that treatment with VYNDAQEL® (tafamidis meglumine) / VYNDAMAX® (tafamidis) provided a clinically significant survival benefit at five years for patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM).
Pfizer’s efforts to blunt the anti-kickback policies of the U.S. government took a hit Friday as a federal district court dismissed its plan to assist Medicare patients in paying for one of the company's most expensive drugs.
ZIN, the Dutch health technology appraisal institute, has slammed the pricing of another rare disease treatment.
While the COVID-19 pandemic dominated headlines at Pfizer and beyond last year, behind the scenes, the company has been busy with its launch of rare heart disease meds Vyndaqel and Vyndamax. And those efforts are showing.
All public attention for Pfizer these days is centered on its BioNTech-partnered COVID-19 vaccine. But while key phase 3 efficacy data for the experimental shot remain blinded, the company’s tafamidis franchise is cruising on a clear growth trajectory that now looks sure to take it to blockbuster status.
Pfizer’s rare heart disease med Vyndaqel, at $225,000 a year, is too pricey for many patients. To help Medicare participants afford the expensive drug—and maintain its hefty sticker price—the Big Pharma is going as far as to argue the U.S. government’s anti-kickback policy is unconstitutional.