Journal
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 61-72Publisher
FUTURE MEDICINE LTD
DOI: 10.2217/PME.12.99
Keywords
companion diagnostics; cost-effectiveness; health technology assessment; molecular diagnostics; reimbursement; value-based pricing
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- Novartis Molecular Diagnostics
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Current pricing and reimbursement systems for diagnostics are not efficient. Prices for diagnostics are often driven by administrative practices and expected production cost. The purpose of the paper is to discuss how a value-based pricing framework being used to ensure efficient use and price of medicines could also be applied to diagnostics. Diagnostics not only facilitates health gain and cost savings, but also information to guide patients' decisions on interventions and their future 'behaviors'. For value assessment processes we recommend a two-part approach. Companion diagnostics introduced at the launch of the drug should be assessed through new drug assessment processes considering a broad range of value elements and a balanced ana-lysis of diagnostic impacts. A separate diagnostic-dedicated committee using value-based pricing principles should review other diagnostics lying outside the companion diagnostics-and-drug 'at-launch' situation.
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