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Novartis' David Lennon on next steps for AveXis, selling Zolgensma's price to the...

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  • cafead   Jan 15, 2020 at 11:42: PM
via Novartis sparked a new round of drug pricing criticism last May when the Swiss pharma revealed its new gene therapy Zolgensma would cost $2.1 million per patient.

In the eight months since then, however, insurers have reimbursed treatment for all but one eligible infant who have received the one-time therapy, according to company CEO Vas Narasimhan, speaking Monday at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.

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