News and Views: Global Efforts for Product Quality, FDA-Payor Program, Uncertainty in Benefit-Risk  Determinations, 510(k) “Quik” Program – Drug and Device Digest

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Global efforts to help assure product quality and transparency at foreign drug manufacturing facilities

FDA framework to help assure that all drug products meet the same high-quality standards, regardless of where they’re manufactured, brand or generic products, prescription or over-the-counter drugs

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FDA recognizes importance of working collaboratively with payor community to streamline the path from FDA market authorization to payor coverage and reimbursement.

Parallel Review Program: Piloted in 2011, fully adopted in 2016. Mechanism for decreasing time between FDA’s approval of a pre-market medical device application and CMS national coverage determination

  • Early feedback from the FDA and CMS on design of pivotal clinical trial in Pre-Submission Mtg
  • 75 inquiries into the process and 36 formal applications to participate in Parallel Review

Private Payor Program: Launched in 2016

  • Receive feedback from  FDA and other non-governmental health technology assessors/payors during the Pre-Submission mtg
  • Participants:  BlueCross BlueShield Association, Duke Evidence Synthesis Group, ECRI Institute, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
  • New Additions: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and United Health Group
  • 4 Pre-Submission mtgs with private payors
  • Program continues to gain momentum receiving new inquiries weekly

Payor engagement strategy particularly beneficial for manufacturers creating new and innovative devices 

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Consideration of Uncertainty in Making Benefit-Risk Determinations in Medical Device Premarket Approvals, De Novo Classifications, and Humanitarian Device Exemptions

Principles in guidance apply to FDA’s consideration of uncertainty in benefit-risk determinations for PMAs, De Novo requests, and HDE applications. Factors include:

  • Extent of probable benefits including the type, magnitude, probability, duration, frequency
  • Extent of probable risks including the severity, type, number, rates, probability,  duration
  • Extent of uncertainty regarding the benefit-risk profile of alternative treatments
  • Patients’ perspective on appropriate uncertainty about probable benefits and risks
  • Extent of the public health need (e.g., seriousness of the illness)
  • Feasibility of generating extensive clinical evidence premarket
  • Ability to reduce or resolve remaining uncertainty  postmarket
  • Likely effectiveness of postmarket mitigations, such as labeling
  • Type of decision being made
  • Probable benefits of earlier patient access to the device

Examples provided

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Quality in 510(k) “Quik” Review Program Pilot

Launch of Quality in 510(k) (“Quik”) Review Program pilot

  • Simplify completion of  premarket notification (510(k)) submission for sertain moderate risk devices
  • Use free eSubmitter software for review efficiency
  • Not be subject to a Refuse to Accept (RTA) review; FDA interactive review and decision within 60 days
  • Does not change any requirements for the determination of substantial equivalence

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