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Maguire and colleagues reported that Avastin delivered monthly cost an average of $595 and Lucentis cost $23,400. If the drugs were taken only as needed, rather than on a monthly basis, the cost dropped for both drugs, but Avastin was still the bargain choice: $385 for the year of treatment compared with $13,800.
Billions of Dollars in Play. But never mind those unanswered questions and the multiple problems with the PARADIGM-HF trial, Entresto, the trade name for valsartan-sacubitril will not be cheap. Per the NY Times, Novartis said Entresto would cost about $12.50 a day, or about $4,500 for a year....Novartis wants to convince you that it's not really that expensive. Mr Epstein said the price was 'really quite reasonable,' given that some drugs for other diseases cost many times that amount and confer less benefit.xpectations for Entresto have been building since it won early U.S. approval and Novartis set a higher than expected price, with analysts now forecasting $4.7 billion of sales in 2020, according to Thomson Reuters Cortellis.