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Humanigen Announces Peer-Reviewed Publication in The Journal of Medical Economics Demonstrating the Clinical and Economic Benefits of Lenzilumab
January 18 2022 - 05:55AM … Business Wire

Lenzilumab plus standard of care (SOC), resulted in an estimated cost savings of $13,190 per patient (net savings of $3,190, after an assumed price of $10,000 for lenzilumab) in those receiving remdesivir with baseline C-Reactive Protein (CRP) levels <150 mg/L, and aged <85 years
For COVID-19 patients requiring ICU admission and invasive mechanical ventilation, the average healthcare cost is $78,245 per patient
Despite increasing vaccinations, the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continues to increase, demonstrating the urgent need for both clinically effective and cost-effective variant-agnostic treatments for hospitalized patients
Humanigen, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGEN) (“Humanigen”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating an immune hyper-response called ‘cytokine storm,’ today announced a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Medical Economics (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13696998.2022.2030148) citing the clinical and associated health economic benefits of lenzilumab. The publication demonstrated, in all cases, lenzilumab plus SOC improved all specified clinical outcomes compared with SOC alone. Lenzilumab plus SOC, resulted in an estimated cost savings of $13,190 per patient (net savings of $3,190, after an assumed price of $10,000 for lenzilumab) in those receiving remdesivir with baseline C-Reactive Protein (CRP) levels <150 mg/L, and aged <85 years, the primary analysis population in the fully enrolled ACTIV-5/BET-B study. In other subpopulations, per-patient savings were also observed, including those aged <85 years with baseline CRP <150mg/L with or without remdesivir (cost savings = $11,858, net cost savings = $1,858) and within the subpopulation of Black/African American patients with baseline CRP <150mg/L (cost savings = $23,154, net cost savings = $13,154).

“This publication demonstrates the opportunity to realise significant cost savings for healthcare systems, while also improving outcomes for patients,” said Dr. Adrian Kilcoyne, Chief Medical Officer, Humanigen. “With the current omicron surge, the importance of variant-agnostic and both clinically effective and cost-effective therapies is paramount.”

This peer-reviewed publication highlights the significant costs of treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients and the economic benefits of potentially improving survival without ventilation, ventilator use, time to recovery, mortality, time in the ICU, and time to invasive mechanical ventilation, which may be associated with adding lenzilumab to standard of care from the US hospital perspective.

“During these unprecedented and challenging times, we are preparing to commercialize lenzilumab as a single day treatment which is variant-agnostic and, if authorized, a driver of clinical and economic value to patients and healthcare systems,” said Edward P. Jordan, Chief Commercial Officer, Humanigen.