Drugmaker drops cheaper version of drug, leaving patients stuck with pricier one
Sudeep Taksali thought his battle to avoid a medication's steep price tag was over. He was wrong.
In 2020, he'd fought to get insurance to cover a lower-priced version of a drug his then 8-year-old daughter needed. She'd been diagnosed with a rare condition called central precocious puberty, which would have caused her to go through sexual development years earlier than her peers. NPR and KHN wrote about Taksali and his family as part of our Bill of the Month series.
Her doctors and the Taksalis decided to put her puberty on pause with a hormone-blocking drug implant that would be placed under the skin in her arm and release a little bit of the medication each day.
Taksali, who happens to be an orthopedic surgeon, learned that there were two
