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Amgen’s Soliris biosimilar clears phase 3, but won’t launch until 2025

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Amgen has reported positive phase 3 results with its biosimilar version of AstraZeneca/Alexion’s blockbuster rare disease drug Soliris, setting up a regulatory filing with the FDA. The safety and immunogenicity profile of the biosimilar was also comparable to Alexion’s drug, said Amgen.

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FDA approves first Stelara biosimilar, Wezlana

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The US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has approved Wezlana (ustekinumab-auub) as a biosimilar to Johnson & Johnson’s Stelara (ustekinumab). Stelara biosimilars in the US market The first Stelara biosimilars are expected to enter the US market in 2025. “We US sales of Stelara totalled $6.4

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New Reimbursement for Digital Mental Health Treatment in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

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In the recently released 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the “Proposed Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a new reimbursement pathway for “Digital Mental Health Treatment” (DMHT) devices and services.

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New Reimbursement for Digital Mental Health Treatment in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule

Nixon Gwilt Law

In the recently released 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the “Proposed Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a new reimbursement pathway for “Digital Mental Health Treatment” (DMHT) devices and services.

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New Reimbursement Opportunities for Digital Mental Health Treatment in 2025: CMS’ Final Rule

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CMS issued its 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (the “2025 MPFS” or “Final Rule”) on November 1, 2024. The Final 2025 MPFS contains some modifications and clarifications to several elements of the original proposal released in July 2024 (the “Proposed Rule”), which we discussed in this earlier post.

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AstraZeneca’s Tezspire for severe asthma gets green light in EU

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The European Commission has followed the lead of the US FDA and approved AstraZeneca’s Tezspire as an add-on maintenance therapy for patients with severe asthma, becoming the first and only biologic that can be used in all patients, and not restricted to those with specific forms of the disease. billion or more.

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Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments

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Sodium oxybate — which in the late 1980s was marketed to bodybuilders and then became known as GHB and criminally used as a date rape drug — has been sold under the brand name Xyrem after gaining FDA approval in 2002. In 2020, the FDA-approved indication was expanded to include those patients who suffer from cataplexy.