Better Therapeutics Signs Rebate Agreement with One of the Largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers in the US for its AspyreRx Diabetes Treatment
February 06 2024 - 9:43AM
Business Wire
Agreement is an important step towards securing
broad coverage
Better Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: BTTX), a pioneer in developing
prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) for treating
cardiometabolic diseases, today announced that it has entered into
a rebate agreement with one of the nation’s leading Pharmacy
Benefit Managers (PBMs) negotiating on behalf of over 70 million
lives in the US. The rebate agreement, effective January 1, 2024,
applies to the PBM’s commercial book of business and provides plan
participants of the PBM the ability to add AspyreRx™ to their
formularies with rebate eligibility.
Better Therapeutics launched AspyreRx in October 2023, after
receiving U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization in
July 2023 as the first prescription-only digital therapeutic to
treat adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
The company continues to engage with national and regional
health plans, as well as Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and Group
Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), to communicate the value of
AspyreRx for patients with T2D and to secure broad coverage.
“This rebate agreement opens up an important pathway for access
to treatment for millions of patients with type 2 diabetes," said
Frank Karbe, President and CEO at Better Therapeutics. "Agreements
like this demonstrate recognition of the value proposition of
innovative solutions like AspyreRx and represent an important step
toward increasing accessibility and coverage of our product for
patients in need.”
About Better Therapeutics
Better Therapeutics is a prescription digital therapeutics
company developing a novel form of cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT) to address underlying factors that sustain or worsen
cardiometabolic diseases. The Company has developed a proprietary
platform for the development of FDA-regulated, software-based
solutions for T2D, heart disease and other conditions. The CBT
delivered by Better Therapeutics’ PDTs is designed to enable
changes in neural pathways of the brain so lasting changes in
behavior become possible. Addressing the underlying causes of these
diseases has the potential to dramatically improve patient health
while lowering healthcare costs. Better Therapeutics’ clinically
validated mobile applications are intended to be prescribed by
physicians and reimbursed like traditional medicines.
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About AspyreRx
AspyreRx (formerly BT-001) was granted marketing authorization
by the FDA in July 2023 as the first prescription-only digital
therapeutic to treat adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D). AspyreRx is
backed by robust data demonstrating clinically meaningful and
sustained reduction in A1c as well as improvements in other markers
of cardiometabolic health when used up to 180 days. Using proven
techniques that target the underlying psychological, behavioral,
and cognitive factors that sustain or worsen T2D, AspyreRx is a
self-paced, engaging experience that patients can access from their
smartphone. It is prescribed by a healthcare provider in 90-day
increments, with proprietary CBT delivered digitally in a weekly
step-by-step process. Through interactive therapy lessons,
skill-building modules, weekly goal setting and tracking, patients
connect changes in behavior to improvements in blood sugar and
other biometrics. Each step in the experience builds on the prior
to enable and reinforce cognitive restructuring, building the
emotional resilience and acceptance needed to make enduring
changes.
Indication for Use
AspyreRx is a prescription-only digital therapeutic device
intended to provide cognitive behavioral therapy to patients 18
years or older with type 2 diabetes. The device targets behavior to
aid in the management of type 2 diabetes in patients who are under
the care of a healthcare provider. AspyreRx provides cognitive
behavioral therapy as a treatment that should be used adjunctively
with standard of care.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this press release are
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor
provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are typically
identified by words such as “plan,” “believe,” “expect,”
“anticipate,” “intend,” “outlook,” “estimate,” “forecast,”
“project,” “continue,” “could,” “may,” “might,” “possible,”
“potential,” “predict,” “should,” “would” and other similar words
and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that
a statement is not forward-looking. The forward-looking statements
in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements
regarding Better Therapeutics’ expectations related to the efficacy
and potential benefits of PDTs, including AspyreRx, and CBT, and
their potential treatment applications and their ability to improve
clinical outcomes, expectations regarding the rebate agreement and
the potential for the rebate agreement to increase accessibility
and coverage of Better Therapeutics’ products, and expectations
regarding the commercial traction of AspyreRx and partnering and
coverage discussions, among others. These forward-looking
statements are based on the current expectations of the management
of Better Therapeutics and are inherently subject to uncertainties
and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak
only as of the date of such statement. There can be no assurance
that future developments will be those that have been anticipated.
These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks,
uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or
performance to be materially different from those expressed or
implied by these forward-looking statements including: risks
related to Better Therapeutics’ business, such as the willingness
of the FDA to authorize PDTs for commercial distribution and
insurance companies to reimburse their use, market acceptance of
PDTs, including AspyreRx, the risk that the results of previously
conducted studies will not be interpreted favorably by the FDA or
repeated or observed in ongoing or future studies involving Better
Therapeutics’ product candidates and other risks and uncertainties
included under the header “Risk Factors” in Better Therapeutics’
quarterly report on Form-10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended
September 30, 2023 filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”) on November 09, 2023, and those that are
included in any of the Company’s subsequent filings with the
SEC.
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