Hospital Settings Drive Up Spending on Biologics, Biosimilars
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Jul 27, 2023
A new study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute highlights the high — and growing — markups that hospital outpatient departments assign to biologic drugs, while also examining the variation in how HOPDs and physician offices (POs) treat innovator biologics compared to their biosimilars.
The study analyzed medical and pharmacy claims data from Merative MarketScan Commercial Database — which covers nearly 25 million people with private health insurance — from 2013 to 2020, and it focused on seven innovator biologics and their biosimilars that had been launched as of 2020.
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