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Gerry Connolly: “Forty dollars to $31,000 for the same vial... how do we explain going from $40 to $31,000 for the same vial, with the…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2020
Forty dollars to $31,000 for the same vial... how do we explain going from $40 to $31,000 for the same vial, with the same efficacy and impact on a patient, other than it got reclassified as an orphan drug?
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly questions the price increase of a drug after its orphan status reclassification.

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