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Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program Final Guidance

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On June 30, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its much-anticipated final guidance (“Final Guidance”) for the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (“Negotiation Program”) through the...more

King & Spalding

And So It Begins: House Energy and Commerce Leaders Unveil FDA User Fees Legislative Package

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On May 4, 2022, House Energy and Commerce (“E&C”) Committee leaders unveiled the legislative package to reauthorize the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) user fee agreements (the “House Draft”)...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

FDA Issues Final and Draft Guidances on Biosimilar Development under BPCIA

In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued Final Guidance entitled "Questions and Answers on Biosimilar Development and the BPCI Act: Guidance for Industry," and Draft Guidance entitled "New and Revised Draft...more

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FDA Updates Select Q&As on Biosimilar Regulation

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated a final guidance and a companion draft guidance (the “first draft guidance”) providing answers to questions related to the agency’s regulation of biosimilar products and its...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA Releases Final Guidance: Transition of Previously Approved Drugs to Being "Deemed Licensed" Biologics

U.S. prescription drugs can broadly be divided into two categories: 1) small molecule drugs and 2) biologics. Small molecule drugs tend to be chemically synthesized and often have molecular weights under 1,000 Daltons....more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Biosimilars in 2020: What’s Ahead

The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCIA) was passed as part of health reform signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This year, the BPCIA turns 10. While the U.S. Biosimilars Pathway has...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA Issues Final Guidance on Citizen Petitions and Stay of Action Petitions Subject to FDCA Section 505(q)

Introduction: Citizen Petitions in the News - Citizen petitions and stay of action petitions (collectively, citizen petitions or petitions) are in the news. Formally, citizen petitions are a mechanism for "interested...more

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FDA Finalizes Guidance on Biosimilar Interchangeability, Reiterates Case-by-Case Approach to Data Requirements

On May 10, 2019, the Food and Drug Administration issued highly anticipated final guidance that gives drug-makers more clarity on how to demonstrate that a proposed biosimilar product meets the statutory interchangeability...more

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FDA guidance may ease path to biosimilar interchangeability

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On Friday, FDA published the final guidance, “Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product,” which is intended to assist sponsors in demonstrating that a biosimilar product is interchangeable...more

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New Approach for Biologic and Biosimilar Names

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FDA final guidance will have significant impact on marketing of biologics, biosimilars and related products. This month, FDA issued its final guidance on Nonproprietary Naming of Biological Products (Naming Guidance)....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

FDA Issues Final Guidance Requiring Meaningless Suffixes for Biosimilar Names

Despite nearly universal opposition from both biosimilar makers and innovator companies, FDA has issued final guidance adopting its controversial August 2015 proposal for naming biologics. Under the guidance adopted by FDA,...more

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FDA Finalizes Guidance Documents on Biosimilars

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Six years after legislation was adopted creating a new pathway for the approval of biological products that are biosimilar to existing FDA-approved biologics, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to issue guidance...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

FDA Releases "Final" Guidances for Industry regarding the Biosimilar Approval Pathway

About three years ago, and less than two years after Congress passed and President Obama signed the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) into law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a series of...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

FDA Finalizes Guidance Documents on Biosimilarity

On Tuesday, and over three years after the initial guidance documents were released, the US Food and Drug Administration released final versions of three guidance documents discussing how FDA will evaluate applications for...more

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