In some instances the sales price of s medication is weighed against the cost of conventional treatment.
An oral medication that might end the necessity for an expensive surgery, might be priced at 75% of the cost of that surgery. I don’t like it, but this rule of thumb has been seen before on other medications.
IMO, there’s no way this med costs $100,000 per a routine year’s regimen. I’d sure have to have it explained to me before I bought in.
Two years after it goes off patent, it will be costing between $1,000 and $2,000 dollars per year.
A large part of the cost is due to the high cost of bringing the drug to market. I’ve read that amount is up to $200 million and the pharmaceutical companies hae only a few years to recoup their investment.