Acts of Friendship. For Ashley, it was like this: She was sitting with a big group in the school lunchroom when she accidentally knocked her drink onto her lap. As word spread that it looked like Ashley had wet herself, the laughter began to mount. Then she noticed her best friend doing something strange.
The price â listed as $23,800 for a 28-day supply â is slightly higher than the $300,000 average annual cost of Genzymeâs flagship Gaucher treatment Cerezyme, a protein-based enzyme replacement therapy that patients typically take by two-hour infusions every two weeks. Advertisement.
That drug's cost has raised eyebrows and ire. The article calculated that at a cost of $10,000 a year, the cost of PCSK9 inhibitors for the treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia alone would be around $16 billion. As a chronic therapy, the author projected it could add up to $200 billion a year to the country's healthcare system.