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Richard Lowenthal

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

So, if you tell them, I prefer that 1, it's smaller, I can carry it.

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

I'm not afraid of the needle.

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

I'm going to use it very quickly when I have a reaction.

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

That's all the allergist needs to hear to be convinced that that's the right product for you.

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

So with that said, I mean, our wholesale price had to account for that copay assistance to buy down the copay.

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

Typically, you know, if it's a preferred product, the copay is going to be in the 25 to 40 range.

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

And if it's a non-preferred, it's probably in the 80 to 90 range.

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

And so we buy that down to zero and we price that into the wholesale price of the product.

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

So that and as I've just mentioned, the PBM costs, the rebates, the distributor costs is how we basically price the products so that we could retain enough of the net to cover our costs and repay our investors and cost of development.

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

We are lucky at ARS because we are not very affected by tariffs.

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

We manufacture NEFI in the United States.

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

We do have a couple of the components of NEFI that come from Europe.

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

But we source no ingredients of NEFI or the device from either Asia or India.

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

So nothing coming out of China or India.

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

And going back to Europe, we are selling NEFI in Europe now and Germany, UK.

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

It's been launched recently.

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

And there obviously is no tariff going back to Europe.

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

So we've actually are in fairly good shape with regards to the tariffs for NEFI itself because we manufacture the product in New Jersey.

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

We are setting up a second manufacturing site in the European region, which will eventually provide product for Europe.