Few Clouds On High-Priced, Ultra-Orphan Drug Horizon
Executive Summary
With BioMarin's Brineura hitting the market with a $702,000 annual price tag, recent experience for other high-priced rare disease drugs supports the theory that payers will accept high costs for ultra-rare pediatric disease therapies.
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