Value-based pricing for advanced therapy medicinal products: emerging affordability solutions

Elisabete Gonçalves ()
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Elisabete Gonçalves: CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, vol. 23, issue 2, No 1, 155-163

Abstract: Abstract The emergence of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), a disruptive class of health technologies, is generating important challenges in terms of value assessment and their high prices introduce critical access and affordability concerns. The aim of this article is to analyze the challenges of traditional value assessment and price and reimbursement methods in the evaluation of ATMPs and to characterize the current and prospective financing solutions that may ensure patient access and affordability for these health technologies. Standard Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is not designed for ATMPs, and may delay access to these health technologies, thus a broader concept of value is required. As a consequence, value-based pricing methodologies have been gaining terrain to cope with the specific challenges of ATMPs. The pricing and reimbursement framework should ensure the balance between encouragements to innovation and maximization of value for money for payers, through the attribution of a fair price to new health technologies. Early scientific advice by regulatory and HTA bodies to developers is key, as it will contribute to diminish the perspective gap between developers, regulators and payers. The high efficacy/high price dynamic of many advanced therapies will demand novel financing models, both in the EU and US. Managed entry agreements (MEA), with financing being conditional to the submission of additional evidence, associated with methods of leased payments, may offer effective strategies to address the uncertainties caused by the evidence gap associated with ATMPs, ensuring affordable and sustained access.

Keywords: Advanced therapy medicinal products; Health technology Assessment; Value; Pricing; Affordability; I18; H42; H75 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-021-01276-2

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