Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs

In 2011, Bristol-Myers Squibb set the price of its newly approved melanoma drug ipilimumab— brand name Yervoy—at $120,000 for a course of therapy. The drug was associated with an incremental increase in life expectancy of four months. Drugs like ipilimumab have fueled the perception that the launch...

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Main Authors: Howard, David H., Bach, Peter B., Berndt, Ernst R., Conti, Rena M.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96183
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