Another Chance to Make Priority Review Vouchers Work
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
One of the “innovation” pieces of the FDA Safety & Innovation Act is a priority review voucher program for drugs to treat pediatric rare diseases. The new PRV is designed to avoid some of the glitches that have complicated the value of the program in tropical diseases—but it can’t avoid the core problem inherent in trying to capture the value of a priority review by legislative fiat.
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