ICER Says Amgen/Novartis Migraine Drug Aimovig Is Cost Effective At $5,000 Net Price

Amgen said when Aimovig was approved that its $6,900 list price was designed to make sure a lot of patients could access the migraine prophylaxis. ICER now says that's a reasonable price, assuming a $5,000 net cost for the CGRP inhibitor, but only for patients who have failed on other treatments.

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The price for Amgen Inc.'s and Novartis AG's first-in-class calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitor Aimovig (erenumab-aooe), approved recently in the US for migraine headaches, won an endorsement from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) – at least in patients with chronic migraines who haven't been helped by older preventative therapies.

ICER released a revised assessment of CGRP inhibitor costs on May 31 based on Aimovig's list price of $575 per...

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