Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jan 2018
Humira’s best-selling drug formula: start at a high price. Go higher.
6 January 2018 - Humira is the best-selling prescription drug in the world. You may have seen the commercials.
Because of Humira, a woman with rheumatoid arthritis can wash her puppy in the bathtub, another with colitis can stroll happily through a fair packed with food vendors, while a third suffering from psoriasis can go to the gym without hiding her neck.
But they probably wouldn’t all look so relieved if they saw the bill. The price of Humira, an anti-inflammatory drug dispensed in an injectable pen, has risen from about $19,000 a year in 2012, to more than $38,000 today, per patient, after rebates, according to SSR Health, a research firm. That’s an increase of 100%.
