Zolgensma
Anyone who buys medicine out of their own pocket is aware that some prescriptions might have completely absurd pricing. Even if insurance partially covers the fees, you can still receive the short end of the stick. Zolgensma has the highest cost per dose of any medication in the world, nevertheless.
One benefit of Zolgensma, a gene therapy used to treat pediatric spinal muscular atrophy, is that it only requires one dose per patient. The medication comes in a little 5.5 milliliter bottle in a box, and a doctor just estimates the amount depending on the child's body weight, as you'd anticipate, and injects the medication. The cost of a dose, which is roughly $2.1 million, is a drawback.
Even while outrageous drug costs frequently make the news, none come close to Zolgensma's. When Turing Pharmaceuticals increased the cost of Daraprim from $20 to $750 per dose, there was a scandal. To be fair to Zolgensma, though, this is a single dose, and it may be able to prolong a child's life when their prognosis was previously grim. The majority of affected youngsters did not live to see their fourth birthday. Some people have experienced long, fulfilling lives with their own children and even grandkids after receiving the appropriate care.
- Cost: $2.1 million per dose
