Despite its high price tag, the new Alzheimer’s drug isn’t reigniting the drug pricing debate

Stat News

8 June 2021 - It has all the makings of a bombastic drug pricing debate: a highly anticipated drug, widespread press attention, a huge potential patient population, and a price higher than even some of the highest Wall Street estimates.

But when Biogen announced Monday it would charge $56,000 for an annual course of its just approved Alzheimer’s treatment, the activists who are normally eager to criticise pharma and its pricing strategies were largely silent.

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