Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Glatect, alternative to Copaxone, added to public health plans of 5 Canadian provinces
6 August 2018 - Pendopharm’s Glatect (glatiramer acetate injection), a lower cost alternative to Teva’s Copaxone, has been added to the public health plans of five Canadian provinces for patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) who have never been treated with glatiramer.
The medicine is now covered by the public drug benefit programs of Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and New Brunswick. In these provinces, Glatect will be the only glatiramer-based treatment eligible for public cost reimbursement among RRMS patients new to this type of therapy.
Criteria for being eligible may vary between provinces, and should be verified with each provincial health authority.
