Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Pharmaceutical companies typically raise prescription drug prices at the start of each year and this year was no different. The increases were the latest reminder that, despite President Trump’s fiery campaign rhetoric, the administration had done little to actually lower drug prices.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

When the Trump administration announced its blueprint for lowering prescription drug prices in May , many observers said it was too soft on the biopharma industry and didn’t contain concrete initiatives that could truly cut costs. [ Updated 5:41pm ET with analyst note, see below. But with the U.S. But with the U.S.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The president’s State of the Union address was wide-ranging, as they tend to be, but those who tuned in heard mention of two hot health policy topics: price transparency and drug pricing reform.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

There is no mention of drug pricing or what the administration might do about frequent price increases, such as Mylan’s EpiPen practice, that critics say are unsubstantiated and unethical. It doesn’t necessarily allude to drug-price negotiation. In fact, the 2003 law signed by President George W.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

He vowed during last month’s State of the Union speech that drug prices “will come down.” ” Today, his administration’s fiscal 2019 budget proposal laid out what it calls a “comprehensive” strategy to lower drug prices.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

With the 2020 election just over a year away, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has unveiled the Democratic Party’s answer to public discontent over high prescription drug prices. A preview of the plan was leaked last week. Today’s announcement doesn’t stray far. The new plan would have the U.S.

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Xconomy

MARCH 13, 2019

drug-pricing system seems ever more likely. Replacements for those rebates, however, could have unintended consequences, says a nonprofit watchdog group that in the past decade has been a key amplifier of the drug-price debate. With public and political winds blowing in the same direction, significant reform of the complicated U.S.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Seven top pharmaceutical executives gathered today in Washington, DC, for a Senate hearing on drug prices, bringing face-to-face two groups held in the lowest esteem possible by the American public. By the end of the highly anticipated grilling before the Senate’s finance committee, their strategy for taking on two major.

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Xconomy

JUNE 1, 2018

In setting a price thousands of dollars less than expected, Amgen has won over one of the pharmaceutical industry’s fiercest drug price critics. As Amgen approached an FDA decision last month for its migraine-prevention treatment , concern mounted that the drug would come at premium. After the FDA approved erenumab last.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Two new battlegrounds emerged this week in the nation’s ongoing drug pricing debate. The first involved television: The federal government hopes that blaring prices in TV ads will essentially pressure drug makers into lowering them, and the pharma lobby fired back.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The big price increase : 5 out of 5 stars. Some customer segments value the DVD business and these may be more price sensitive. They might be willing to pay higher prices (and perhaps not an “all you can eat” price but a “pay as you go” price per film). A blog post! No, probably not.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. where Tony Wright suggests charging right now.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Amid the hue and cry over the Mylan EpiPen pricing debacle , Hillary Clinton unveiled her “ Plan to Respond to Unjustified Price Hikes for Long-Available Drugs. ” Clinton’s plan calls for “dedicated oversight to protect consumers.” That dependence on price increases won’t change any time soon.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz. Tags: truecar vehicle pricing data prediction software automobile. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.” Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Fair compensation is the lowest price we can negotiate.” Do your research with peers, and check the alternatives on every project. Be flexible.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Amgen is cutting the list price of its new cholesterol-lowering drug by nearly 60 percent, a move the company says is intended to make the product more affordable for more patients. The Tarrytown, NY firm recently offered significant price cuts to insurance companies that help boost access to its rival medicine alirocumab (Praluent).

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2018

There’s nothing abstract about a 20 percent jump in a company’s stock price. We also have the latest on the Trump administration’s finger-wagging attempts to rein in drug prices; a raft. It’s even worth asking whether they’re worth writing about at all. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2018

Drug price changes typically happen either at the start of the calendar year or the beginning of the third quarter. Such changes are routine for many companies, but Pfizer took an unusual step this week by rolling back scheduled price increases on 40 of its drugs. In May, Trump and. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2018

After nearly two years of all smoke, no fire around President Trump’s promise to curtail drug prices, there’s finally some glimmer of action. Pfizer said last week it would halt its price hikes, and Novartis and Merck took similar actions this week.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2014

Pricing details on Demand Media''s expanded offerings were not announced. READ MORE>>. demand media content marketing advertising experian infographics'

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Xconomy

MARCH 10, 2018

And in an unusual move, Regeneron—based on input from the nonprofit drug-pricing watchdog, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)—vows to cut the cost of the drug if it can get certain concessions from insurers. Regeneron and Amgen, which makes a competing drug, have struggled mightily to get payers to cover.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Carlsbad-based Adjix announced this morning that the firm is looking to help users monetize the popular Twitter micro-blogging service. According to Adjix, it will allow advertisers to set prices, target specific cities, limit who can run their twitter ads, and collect data on clicks. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2020

Signatories agreed to what they dubbed a New Commitment to Patients, a list of “core principals and actions” promising that “pricing of our medicines at launch will reflect innovation and value to patients” and “any price increases on our medicines must be reasonable and guided by the need for uninterrupted patient access.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

You have figured out how to undercut your competitor’s price, and still hold your margin. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for. A business model that works. Marketing is top priority.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 2, 2019

Investors, however, buoyed the company’s share price this week after Acadia (NASDAQ: ACAD ) announced it anticipated that sales of Nuplazid, its sole commercial drug, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn, who offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog. Search engines and people love blogs these days.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

According to Near Networks, it will help connect local businesses with filmmakers, to create YouTube videos, embed video channels on their website or blogs, and to share their videos via social networks. Near Networks said it is looking to overcome the "lack of production quality" in local business video, at a low price point.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. Building a blog & name recognition is only one small, small part of my job. If I get a holiday bump I’ll raise a round at whatever price I like. I did that? Back to zero. Here we go.

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Xconomy

JUNE 26, 2018

When President Trump signed legislation last month allowing seriously ill patients the “right to try” unapproved drugs without FDA oversight, he voiced a bold prediction: Within two weeks, he said, drug companies would announce “voluntary massive drops in prices.” Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. A good compromise is “convertible debt with a cap&# meaning the conversion price has a limit.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In advance of an anticipated Senate hearing on drug prices, President Donald Trump once again denounced drug companies as “getting away with murder.” He also said at the time that “we’re going to start bidding,” a reference to Medicare’s inability to negotiate drug prices.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2016

But as expected, the drug, from Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, is a costly one, priced at the high end of the six figure price tags often given to treatments for rare diseases with no alternative treatments. The per-injection price translates into $750,000 for.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2018

We also saw a new biotech emerge in the muggy New York heat, a couple deals for new flu vaccines, and interesting developments in the complicated world of drug pricing. Both were landmarks for the companies receiving the nod, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Amicus Therapeutics. It’s hot out there. Stay cool with the roundup.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

If Wednesday’s hearing for Health and Human Services Secretary Nominee Alex Azar is any indication, reining in drug prices and insurance premiums are the policy priorities that will guide Congress’s interaction with the department under a new leader. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2019

Turning Point Therapeutics raised more than $166 million in its IPO, pricing at the top of its range and putting nearly 2 million more shares into the public markets than it had initially planned. million shares at $18 apiece, raising $166.5 million before discounts, commissions, and offering expenses.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

[ Editor’s note: Ben Fidler and Sarah de Crescenzo coauthored this report.] It is here, and then it is gone. But by the time everyone staggers to the airport or back home to sleep in their own beds, the annual few days of the J.P.

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