Currently, in Germany, free pricing applies in the first year. This means, at the time of launch in the German market, pharmaceutical companies are free to set the price for their product with a new chemical entity (NCE). This price is then valid for the first 12 months from the day of launch.
Biosimilars are biological drugs that are highly similar to another biological medicine, the so-called originator. The biosimilars have no clinically meaningful differences to