July 30 Webinar 3: Sharing and comparing feedback for the PMPRB Guidelines
1. Collaborating on Drug Pricing Guidelines for
Cost-Effectiveness and Access
Summer Webinar Series on the PMPRB Changes
July 30, 2020
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2. • Durhane Wong-Rieger, PhD, President & CEO, CORD
• Mike Drummond, PhD, Professor Health Economics, Univ. of York, UK
• Dr. Aneal Khan, Department of Medical Genetics, Univ. of Calgary
• Ed Dybka, President & GM, Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Canada
• Rosalie Wyonch, Policy Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute
• Fred Horne, Policy Analyst, former Alberta Minister of Health
MODERATOR Bill Dempster, 3Sixty Public Affairs
Today’s roundtable
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3. JULY
16
Federal Price Controls and Access
to Medicines Webinar Series
JUNE
25
JULY
30
Has the PMPRB removed
the obstacles to access
in its Guidelines?
at noon at noon at noon
Hearing From
Those Who Matter
Collaborating on Drug
Pricing Guidelines for Cost-
Effectiveness and Access
4. • The capping arguments:
• Take the country changes which would bring you to the middle of the OECD countries – that
already is the starting point
• We have a process that gets developers and payers together to land on a price – not the best
but not the worst – and the PMPRB will make that worse
• Canada can do better – alternatives exist globally – we just need to have a more open mind to
the options – we’re on the cusp of huge opportunities for rare diseases strategies and funding,
but the PMPRB
PREPARING TO PROVIDE INPUT TO PMPRB
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LET’S HELP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GET IT RIGHT
5. Recap and Update on Changes in PMPRB Federal Regulations
• Changes on How PMPRB Sets Prices:
- NEW: List of comparator countries to set Maximum List
Price: Drop 2 highest and add 5 lower priced countries
- NEW: Regulated Maximum Rebated Price (MRP)
unilaterally set by PMPRB using new economic factors
- NEW: Arbitrary, uniquely Canadian MRP cap set using
cost/QALY and therapeutic class levels determined by
staff
New list (PMPRB11)
FRANCE UK
GERMANY ITALY
SWEDEN AUSTRALIA
BELGIUM
JAPAN
NORWAY
NETHERLANDS
SPAIN
USA
SWITZERLAND
6. Moving Canada to the lower end of OECD
3.21
1.06
1.00 0.97 0.94 0.94 0.92 0.89 0.88 0.86 0.85 0.84 0.83 0.83 0.81 0.81 0.80 0.80 0.79 0.79 0.78 0.76 0.74 0.72 0.71 0.70 0.69 0.69 0.67 0.67
0.54
0.34
USASw
itzerland
Canada
Germ
any
New
Zealand
M
exico
Japan
Chile
Austria
Sw
eden
Italy
Finland
UK
Ireland
OECD
M
EDIAN*
Hungary
SpainNetherlands
BelgiumLuxem
bourg
Norw
ay
France
Australia
Portugal
Slovakia
Czech
Republic
Poland
Greece
Estonia
SloveniaSouth
Korea
Turkey
Average Foreign-to-Canadian Price Ratios, Patented Medicines, OECD, 2017
Calculated at medicine level for medicines with prices available in at least three foreign markers
Source: From Figure 21 of the PMPRB Annual Report 2017; MIDASTM database, 2017, IQVIA. 40-70%
Current comparator
New comparator
Canadian regulated public prices
drop by ~20% and potentially further
based on therapeutic class
comparison (TCC) test
Further reductions of net (confidential)
prices bring total regulated reductions
to as much as 50% off median
international price (MIP)
PMPRB 11 median = 0.80
7. Drug Development
Health Canada
Review ($)
Patented Medicine
Prices Review Board
Health Technology
Assessment ($)
Hospitals
Patient Access
Public Drug Plans
PMPRB new process
Private Drug Plans
NoC + 12-24+ months to access
Challenging predictability