Drugmakers go under the skin, skirting early US Medicare price negotiations
Injectable versions of some widely-used cancer drugs including Johnson & Johnson's blockbuster multiple myeloma treatment Darzalex are likely to be excluded from new U.S. government price negotiations for years, drugmakers told Reuters, protecting billions in revenue. J&J, Merck & Co, which is testing an injectable version of its top-selling immunotherapy Keytruda, and Halozyme Therapeutics, which licenses the critical new ingredient, hyaluronidase, for subcutaneous drugs, all told Reuters they believe the reformulation qualifies the medicines to be treated like new drugs....
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