New Migraine Drugs May Not Be Cost Effective In Patients With Other Options, ICER Suggests

Draft cost effectiveness report released by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review uses $8,500 annual cost for Aimovig and fremanezumab as a "placeholder" price.

The cost of Amgen Inc. and Novartis AG' s Aimovig (erenumab) and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s fremanezumab in preventing chronic or episodic migraine will likely exceed common "willingness to pay" thresholds in patients who have other treatment options available, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review concludes in a draft evidence report released April 11.

However, for patients with chronic migraine who have failed other preventive treatments, the new drugs may meet the upper bounds...

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