‘DrugAbacus’ Pricing Tool Helps Payers Calculate Fair Value Of Cancer Drugs
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Peter Bach unveils a web-based drug pricing tool that uses several value measurements, including R&D investment and novelty, to identify the appropriate price for cancer drugs.
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