ARTICLES BY STANTON R. MEHR

• Which Biosimilar Companies Will Thrive In 2025?

  3/31/2020

  Five years after the first biosimilar was made available for prescription in the U.S., the American biosimilar market may be turning a corner on the road to sustainability.

• Can The FTC Clear A Path For Biosimilar Access Through The Patent Thicket?

  6/4/2019

  The existence of what we now call “patent thickets” is a threat to the biosimilar industry (as well as to the introduction of affordable generic drugs). The possibility that innovator medications like AbbVie’s Humira (adalimumab) and Amgen’s Enbrel (etanercept) can retain market exclusivity decades beyond their original date of introduction angers all except the manufacturers’ shareholders.

• Medicare's International Pricing Index — Biosimilar Stakeholders Weigh In

  2/19/2019

  Can use of the Medicare IPI achieve lower drug costs? The consensus is still out. However, it will almost certainly change the way biosimilar manufacturers will have to think about pricing their agents. And it could raise further questions about the wisdom of a biosimilar pipeline for some drug makers.

• If Four-Letter Suffixes Aren’t Used In Biosimilar Tracking, What Use Are They?

  11/6/2018

  The implementation of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act¹ (BPCIA) raised a number of critical issues for manufacturers, payers, and prescribers. These include the big-picture questions of extrapolation of indications, interchangeability, and a radical new approach to evaluating the comparability of these drugs to their reference biologics, as well as approving them.