The third IL-17 inhibitor on the US market will have a $3,500/month list price. But in a crowded, safety-conscious space like psoriasis, it's unclear how low the discounted price will need to go and whether competitive pricing would be enough to sway prescribers.

List pricing for Biogen’s Tecfidera and Novartis’ Gilenya would need to be discounted 47% and 50%, respectively, for them to be considered good values, ICER concludes in a new report. But three products come in under ICER's thresholds.

Drug companies are accusing the US Institute for Clinical and Economic Review of approaching cost effectiveness assessments in the same way as the UK National Health Service gatekeeper, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.