Pay-for-Performance and Drug Pricing: Impact and Response of Pharma [2016]

February 2016 | | ID: PA6AB1E054BEN
FirstWord

Abstracts

The pay for performance agenda gathers pace as US payers rebel the cost of drugs.

Pharma is in the firing lineas fundamental change sweeps across the US health delivery sector. Driven by unsustainable growth in drug costs, health payers want therapies that prove to deliver better patient outcomes at a lower cost. Under mounting pressure, what can Pharma do to ensure positive payer support for its pricing proposals?

Pay-for-Performance and Drug Pricing Pressure: Impact and Response from Pharma intensively examines the drivers and the players involved through informed opinion, detailed secondary research and instructive case studies.

“Long term, what may have to happen is that government may have to step in. Whether it's Medicare or Medicaid, each may have to negotiate a better pricing option.” US Payer

Answering key questions:

• Firmly on the public payer’s agenda: Will Accountable Care Organisations (ACO) and the Medicare Shared Savings Programme embrace drug prices?
• Private insurers move: Private insurers are encouraging patient choice and rewarding clinicians prescribe specific therapeutics over others. How can Pharma ensure formulary preference?
• A panacea? Will pay-for-performance strategies, such as paying for the value per indication given for drugs that have multiple indications, ever be viable?
• Clinical evidence: How can late stage and Phase IV clinical trials be designed to demonstrate value over existing therapies?
• Non clinical assessment: How might less traditional clinical endpoints demonstrate value and support pricing?
• Co Pay or No pay? The battle between manufacturers and payers grows as strategies become more confrontational. Why are patient support programmes not universally seen as positive?
• Hepatitis C lessons: What lessons can the wider industry take from Gilead’s and Abbvie’s experience in the fast-moving HCV market?

With this report you will be able to:

• Understand the drivers that underpin payer and public concerns and which are setting the pay-for-performance vs pricing status quo agenda
• Understand how public payers are reforming health delivery and assess the likely impact on pharma as these initiatives mature.
• Examine how private health insurers are leveraging competitive pressure, reward schemes and limiting formulary access to control their costs and negotiate better deals
• Appreciate how clinical trials must confirm safety, efficacy but also demonstrate value if the product is going to find a position in the market
• Learn about leading companies such as Gilead, J&J, Novartis, Sanofi, Roche, Eli Lilly and Biogen on how getting pricing strategy right – or getting it wrong – can have significant consequences.

Key Topics explored

• Above inflation price increases for products with little known clinical advantage are finding it difficult to gain market traction. Proving value is now essential.
• It is almost certain that drug costs will be considered in ACO assessments going forward – will they be successful in controlling prices and what does pharma need to know about them.
• The decentralised nature of US healthcare has created a plethora of unconnected electronic patient record formats. To what extent is this limiting Pharma’s access to large volumes of data tying medication use to outcomes to underpin their negotiating position?
• Proving value can take many forms, but being able to show advantage over established first line therapies is a critical starting point – the need for comparator trials is now firmly established.
• Discounting, risk sharing, patient support programmes, better evidence from real world data: are these enough to silence the critics?
• The unfolding story about Gilead’s Solvaldi/Harvoni and J&J’s Viekra Pak demonstrates that high reward can be high risk, with product success in the market being short lived.

Expert Contributors

• The report is informed through in-depth interviews with payers, advisors and clinicians. To ensure open and critical responses some contributors identities have been kept anonymous:
• Leela Barham is an independent health economist and policy expert.
• John J. Doyle is senior vice president, Advisory Services, and leads the Values & Outcomes efforts to navigate the transformational changes in the healthcare marketplace from volume to value, via a population health perspective.
• Robert Howard is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at UCL in London.
• Leigh Purvis is the Director of Health Services Research in the American. Association of Retired Person’s (AARP’s) Public Policy Institute (PPI).
• Alan Shaw is a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry from a financial perspective and former Chief Financial Officer of Serono S.A.
• Anonymous: A leading oncologist who heads a cancer unit at an established cancer center in the US.
• Anonymous: An anonymous medical director works at a US national plan covering nine million patients who is involved in policy, formulary management, quality improvement, readmissions, pay for performance activities and network management.
• Anonymous: An Executive Chairman of a private biotech firm and former CEO of a larger biotech that is now part of a pharmaceutical company.

About FirstWord

FirstWord is an innovative industry intelligence leader serving over 240,000 Pharma and MedTech professionals worldwide. FirstWord offers a range of products and services designed to help your company gain a competitive edge by making key business decisions with speed and confidence.

FirstWord Pharma PLUS is a personalised and comprehensive intelligence service delivering up-to-the-minute pharma news, insight, analysis and expert views of importance to your company’s success.

FirstWord Reports deliver timely, need-to-know intelligence about your products, your competitors and your markets. Covering biosimilars, market access, medical affairs, sales & marketing, technology and therapy areas, FirstWord Reports provide expert views and intelligence on the challenges facing pharma today.

Contents

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY

2.1 Objectives
2.2 Methodology

3 OVERVIEW

4 TRADITIONAL PAY-FOR-SERVICE REIMBURSEMENT

4.1 Key Insights

5 SHIFT TO PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE REIMBURSEMENT

5.1 Key Insights
5.2 Medicare approach
5.3 Non-Medicare approach

6 POSITIVE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY STRATEGIES

6.1 Key Insights
6.2 Increasing use of head-to-head clinical studies
6.3 Individual drug risk-sharing strategies
  6.3.1 The challenges of tying drug performance to patient outcomes
  6.3.2 The value of shared risk programmes in Europe
6.4 Balancing cost and benefit
6.5 Restrained drug launches
  6.5.1 Novel biologics for dyslipidaemia
6.6 Case study: Novel hepatitis C cures
6.7 Recapturing market share in the face of innovative therapies
6.8 Other pay for performance pharma strategies
  6.8.1 Case study: Initial three-drug treatment of type 2 diabetes

7 NEGATIVE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY STRATEGIES

7.1 Key Insights
7.2 Shadow pricing
  7.2.1 Case Study: MS drugs raise prices with each drug launch
7.3 Drugmaker-sponsored programmes to offset steeper co-pays
7.4 Revenue gains still possible despite modest efficacy
7.5 Creating non-standard clinical efficacy endpoints

8 REDUCING PHARMACOLOGIC COSTS OF ONCOLOGY TREATMENTS

8.1 Key Insights
8.2 Background on cancer therapies and cost effectiveness
8.3 Case Study: FDA’s revocation of approval of Avastin to treat metastatic breast cancer
8.4 Companion diagnostics leveraged to demonstrate value of NSCLC therapies
8.5 Diagnostic tests could help demonstrate value to payers
8.6 Oncologists’ editorial regarding ‘unsustainable’ cancer drug pricing
  8.6.1 Allowing CMS to negotiate drug prices
  8.6.2 Creation of value-based system of reimbursements

9 CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

9.1 Report Writer