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

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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. It’s just math. Except the music stopped.

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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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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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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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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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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Inquisitiveness: Prior to starting the project, you should receive an estimate of the work effort. To provide an accurate estimate, the firm should ask a multitude of questions.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Irvine-based content moderation software developer WebPurify says it has enhanced its tools with a new tool, which allows its users to automatically detect text in memes and other images in blogs, forums, social media apps, children's sites, in-game chats, and more. Pricing on the new tool, which is now in limited beta, was not announced.

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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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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

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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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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

JULY 14, 2017

Akcea Therapeutics is joining the parade of biotechs going public, but the company had to cut its stock price and sell more shares in order to pull it off. But the biotech priced its offering of 15.6 Cambridge, MA-based Akcea had planned on raising $125 million from the initial public offering, and it hit that target.

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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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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2020

The biotech IPO market is buzzing but Cerevel Therapeutics is showing that there’s more than one path to the public markets. This week the neuroscience drug developer reached a deal to merge with publicly traded Arya Sciences Acquisition Corp II.

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Xconomy

APRIL 26, 2019

The road to every new drug approval is littered with the remains of earlier failures. Biopharmaceutical companies don’t like to talk about the failures. But it’s earnings season now, so some of them don’t have much choice.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2017

Trump’s nominee to run the $1 trillion Health and Human Services Department, Tom Price, answered—or didn’t answer—many of those questions in a Senate hearing Wednesday.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2017

The firm acknowledged price hikes on several drugs that stayed—sometimes barely—under the 10 percent limit that CEO Brent Saunders pledged last September, in what he called a “ social contract with patients.” The first test of pharmaceutical giant Allergan’s promise to behave responsibly came last week.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

Tom Price, the man who could oversee an overhaul of the U.S. Price, an orthopedic surgeon by training, is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary. [Note: This report was co-authored by deputy biotech editor Ben Fidler.]

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The Senate confirmed Tom Price as Secretary of the U.S. Price is an orthopedic surgeon by training who has been a member of Georgia’s congressional delegation since 2004. While in Congress, Price has been an outspoken critic of the. In total, the department has an annual budget that tops $1 trillion.

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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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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The stock price of Mitek (NASDAQ:MITK) rose nearly 9 percent on the news, closing at $9.75. ASG Technologies, the Florida-based software company backed by activist hedge fund Elliott Management, has upped its offer for San Diego’s Mitek Systems to $11.50 per share from $10 apiece. That’s according to a Nov.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Last week, the first genetically modified cell therapy came to market with a price tag of $475,000. The national debate over the high cost of healthcare, with prescription drugs at the center, resonates from the chambers of Congress to every American’s pocketbook. And it’s growing fiercer by the day.

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