It has been reported that U.S. pharmacy benefit manager CVS will drop Sanofi’s insulin drugs, Lantus® (insulin glargine injection, 100 units/ml) and Toujeo® (insulin glargine injection, 300 units/ml) from the list of medications for which it reimburses on behalf of health insurers. In July CVS caremark® published a list of…
On June 5, 2019, Lannett Company, Inc. announced they would begin human clinical trials for an insulin glargine biosimilar. According to Lannett’s press release, “[i]nsulin glargine is a long-acting insulin used to regulate the blood sugar of adults with Type 2 Diabetes, as well as adults and pediatric patients with…
Here are our picks for the top-five most significant U.S. market developments in the world of biosimilars in 2016: The FDA approved three biosimilar products in 2016, compared to only one in 2015 — Sandoz’s Zarxio®, a biosimilar version of Amgen’s Neupogen® (filgrastim). The first 2016 approval was Celltrion and Pfizer’s Inflectra®…
Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that their insulin glargine injection product, Basaglar® (a follow-on biologic for Sanofi’s Lantus®), is now available by prescription in the U.S. Although Basaglar is approved as a biosimilar for Lantus in Europe, in the U.S., Basaglar is not technically considered a biosimilar. In the U.S.,…
Yesterday, CVS announced that it would be dropping two brand-name biologic drugs from its standard formulary (list of medications CVS will cover): Amgen’s Neupogen® (filgrastim), and Sanofi’s Lantus® (insulin glargine). CVS will be replacing Neupogen® with Sandoz’s Zarxio® biosimilar product, and will replace Lantus® with Eli Lilly & Co.’s Basaglar® product,…