Relationships between developmental strategies for additional indications and price revisions for anticancer drugs in Japan.

ABSTRACT: The relationships between developmental strategies for additional indications and drug price revisions have not been thoroughly studied. Here, we investigated the price revisions for anticancer drugs approved in Japan. The study was based on published information on anticancer drugs approved between January 2009 and March 2020 in Japan. We investigated the relationships between the pharmacological and regulatory characteristics of anticancer drugs and occurrence/non-occurrence of the Japanese National Health Insurance (NHI) price revisions. Eighty-one new anticancer drugs were given NHI price listings during the survey. On April 1, 2020, the prices of 23 anticancer drugs had been revised from the initial pricing, the prices were reduced for 21 drugs (91.3%). Several parameters showed the r

SUBMITTER: Maeda H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665599 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature