Billions Spent on DMD Meds Despite Scant Proof of Efficacy

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Billions Spent on DMD Meds Despite Scant Proof of Efficacy
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Over 7 years, the US health care system spent more than $3 billion on DMD treatments eteplirsen, golodirsen, and casimersen, despite a lack of confirmatory trial data.

— cost the US health care system more than $3 billion between 2016 and 2022, despite a lack of confirmatory efficacy data, a new analysis showed.

Overall sales for the drugs increased from $7 million in 2016 to $879 million in 2022, while Medicaid and Medicare spending rose from $25 million in 2017 to $327 million in 2022. The findings point to the importance of follow up on drugs that are approved with preliminary evidence, Rome said.

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