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Richard Lowenthal

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Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

You need that medical benefit, that product differentiation to be able to compete against generics.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We also actually focus very much on the consumer and the patient caregiver.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And we have a copay program where our copay program actually can provide people with this disease who have commercial insurance with NEFI at a zero copay price.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So the price to the consumer is actually much less for NEFI than the generic auto injectors, which don't.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

have the ability to provide a copay assistance.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So our average copay price is actually less than generic auto injector.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Yeah, so of the entire current prescription market, now this is not necessarily the epidemiology of the disease, but the prescriptions being given out on an annual basis, about 50% are in adults and 50% of the prescriptions are pediatric children under 17 and under.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Our initial approval was for both adults and pediatric patients who were 30 kilograms or greater.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So there's not typically an age differentiation in this disease.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Epinephrine is dosed by weight.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So for 30 kilograms and above, they would take a two milligram dose.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Earlier this year, we got the one milligram intranasal epinephrine dose approved, which is for children 15 to less than 30 kilograms.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

The children in that population, the one milligram dose that got approved earlier this year, it's roughly 24% of the market, of the prescription market today.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And we're seeing that market share in that part of the market growing quite well.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

um and then and then of course we are also working on a dose we call it our baby dose but it's a dose for uh children that are 7.5 kilograms to 15 kilograms so that's approximately six months of age to a small four-year-old or a you know three-year-old um at the upper end um and we're we're also working on that and hope to have that approved um sometime late next year

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Yes, well, we're still dealing with, of course, we're about a year into the launch and we have, we have relatively good coverage.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We have about ninety three percent of insurers that will cover.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

58% are approving NEFI prescriptions without any prior authorization or other paperwork.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So it's simply send a prescription to the pharmacy and it's automatically filled.