Authors’ reply: Inadequate analysis of the budgetary impact of new label indications after initial drug registration in Brazil: A response to a published case study

Marcus Carvalho Borin^1,2*, Mariana Michel Barbosa^1,2, Camila Oliveira Pereira^1,2, Carina Rejane Martins¹, Daniel Pitchon dos Reis¹, Geraldo José Coelho Ribeiro^1,3, Júlia Teixeira Tupinambás¹, Karina de Castro Zocrato¹, Lélia Maria de Almeida Carvalho¹, Marcela Pinto de Freitas¹, Maria da Glória Cruvinel Horta¹, Mariza Cristina Torres Talim¹, Ernesto Gomes de Azevedo¹, Sergio Adriano Loureiro Bersan¹, Silvana Marcia Bruschi Kelles^1,3

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¹ Unimed-BH, Health Technology Assessment Group, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

² Department of Social Pharmacy, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Faculty of Pharmacy, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

³ Department of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Institute of Biological and Health Sciences, Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil

GHES 2024, 2(4), 4439 https://doi.org/10.36922/ghes.4439

Submitted: 5 August 2024 | Accepted: 14 August 2024 | Published: 23 September 2024

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