Category: Viewpoints

In the latest post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Rachel Sachs addresses key provisions of the FDA’s proposed user fee reauthorization bill. Included in her assessment are details of new language changes and amendments added to the bill, as well as a look forward to potential obstacles to the bill’s final passage. Read…

In the latest post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs featured blog series, Seth Seabury and Neeraj Sood examine the challenges to addressing the significant threat that antimicrobial resistant infections pose to human health. In their commentary, Seabury and Sood focus on three of the most commonly proposed policies to promote the development of new antimicrobials: market…

In a post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series,Josh Seidman, Margaret Anderson, Domitilla Masi, Melea Atkins and Maureen Japha examine the role of patient perspectives in assessing value in healthcare, focusing on the Avalere-FasterCures Patient-Perspective Value Framework as an example of progress toward a more patient-centered approach to value assessment. Read the full article…

In the latest post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Chronis Manolis, C. Bernie Good and William Shrank discuss current approaches to curbing rampant opioid abuse, including the mandating of coverage for abuse-deterrent opioids. The authors make the case that this tactic would be non-effective, costly and would distract from arriving at more comprehensive solutions…

In a recent post on the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Michael Carrier and Steve Shadowen examine the practice of “product hopping,” in which drug manufacturers can delay a generic introduction through product reformulation. In addition to presenting some of the prevailing issues before the courts, the authors also propose a new framework to keep the…

In the latest post on the the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Donald Light offers a response to a recent Health Affairs blog commentary by Nancy Yu, Zachary Helms, and Peter Bach focusing on the excess of US drug pricing over prices in other developed countries. Light argues that the myth of the “foreign free-rider,”…

In a post on the the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Henry Grabowski and Richard Manning offer a rebuttal to a recent Health Affairs blog commentary by Nancy Yu, Zachary Helms, and Peter Bach on the subject of drug pricing. In their rebuttal, Grabowski and Manning caution that the premise of the earlier blog post…

In the latest post on the the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Neeraj Sood, Tiffany Shih, Karen Van Nuys and Dana Goldman present the findings of their study examining the flow of funds in the pharmaceutical distribution system, suggesting that greater transparency and granularity would be beneficial in the reporting of financials from all sectors.…

In the latest post on the the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Drugs and Medical Innovation, Erica Lietzan takes a look at the recent Supreme Court ruling on Sandoz v. Amgen, examining premarket patent litigation, patent resolution process, state law influence, and the impact of the SCOTUS ruling itself. Read the full article here.

In the latest post on the the IVI-sponsored Health Affairs blog series, Rachel Sachs summarizes the recent Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee meeting. Organized to address the drug delivery system and how it influences what patients pay, the meeting quickly shifted to a partisan blasting of the secretive process by which Republicans…