COVID-19 Shifts ICER Pricing Targets, Creating New Hurdles For Drug Developers
Executive Summary
With a remdesivir analysis pushing cost-recovery models and lower thresholds for cost-effectiveness, ICER's COVID-19 pricing framework will likely result in lower pricing benchmarks for drugs than the group would have issued under its typical analysis framework. Critics say this is the opposite of what should be incentivized in an emergency.
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