{"id":18430,"date":"2021-07-06T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18430"},"modified":"2021-07-06T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:46:24","slug":"paying-billions-for-controversial-alzheimers-drug-how-about-funding-this-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18430","title":{"rendered":"Paying Billions for Controversial Alzheimer\u2019s Drug? How About Funding This Instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>If you could invest $56 billion each year in improving health care for older adults, how would you spend it? On a hugely expensive medication with questionable efficacy \u2014 or something else?<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t an abstract question. Aduhelm, a new Alzheimer\u2019s drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration last month, could be prescribed to 1 million to 2 million patients a year, even if conservative criteria were used, according to Biogen and Eisai, the companies behind the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The total annual price tag would come to $56 billion if the average list price, $56,000, is applied to the lower end of the companies\u2019 estimate.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/paying-billions-for-controversial-alzheimers-drug-how-about-funding-this-instead\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) If you could invest $56 billion each year in improving health care for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,21,20,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18431,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18430\/revisions\/18431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}