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Karl Freemyer

Karl Freemyer

Head of Business Development

    How Global Price Targeting Shapes Pricing & Access Strategy for Pipeline Assets

    Last Updated: October 15th, 2025

    To succeed across markets, pipeline assets require a well-informed global pricing strategy. By effectively combining technical ability with practical agility, teams can not only optimize pricing but also anticipate HTA challenges and strengthen reimbursement positioning.

    What Is Global Price Targeting for a Pipeline Asset?

    Global price targeting involves early defining price expectations and reimbursement pathways by assessing competitor analogs, payer needs, market access landscapes, and economic modeling. As a result, it helps pharma/biotech companies plan launch strategies that are commercially viable and compliant with multiple jurisdictions.

    How Our Technology Delivers Results

    Our expertise in Technical Ability includes:

    • Literature review & secondary research: Deep dive into European HTA pathways, pricing databases, and comparative analog analyses.
    • CEM strategic recommendations: Leveraging guidelines (e.g. NICE DSU), analog insights, HTA requirements, and economic modeling to optimize structure and assumptions.
    • Primary research: Conducting stakeholder interviews across the EU-5 to validate insights and modeling, understand burden, and identify target pricing estimates.

    How Our Practical Agility Keeps Teams Ahead

    Under Practical Agility, what we offer:

    • CEM recommendations were applied to shape evidence generation strategies, ensuring relevance in both CE and non-CE markets.
    • Developed graphical landscape decks to communicate treatment approaches, competitive context, and reimbursement environments.
    • Delivered pricing & market access reports that guided payer positioning and highlighted population or evidence gaps.

    Why This Matters for Pipeline Assets

    Early alignment on pricing and reimbursement strategy reduces surprise risks at HTA review, while clear, evidence-backed pricing positions support payer negotiations and market access. Additionally, a good balance of ability and agility ensures the strategy remains relevant as clinical data or market conditions evolve.

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    A Step Forward in Pipeline Pricing Strategy

    Developing a global price targeting framework that combines Technical Ability with Practical Agility not only helps pharma and biotech companies navigate complex reimbursement landscapes but also enables them to launch confidently. Moreover, by engaging stakeholders early, validating assumptions, and staying nimble, teams can effectively define and adapt pricing strategies that consistently maximize access and value.

    Is your pricing strategy launch-ready?

    Work with our experts to build a clear, evidence-backed global pricing approach that ensures market access and reimbursement success for your pipeline assets.

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    FAQs on Global Price Targeting

    1. What is global price targeting, and when should it start?
      It’s defining pricing expectations ahead of launch. It’s ideal to start during the late preclinical to early clinical phases to steer development strategy and reimbursement planning.
    2. What resources are needed?
      Access to market data, analog product performance, payer pathway guidelines, modeling expertise, stakeholder networks.
    3. How is agility maintained as new data emerges?
      By iterative modeling, regular reviews, maintaining flexible assumptions, and adapting strategies to new clinical or regulatory information.
    4. What are typical deliverables?

    Examples include landscape assessment decks, pricing & access reports, strategic recommendations, and evidence generation planning.

    Meet the Authors

    Karl Freemyer

    Karl Freemyer

    Head of Business Development

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      Herspiegel is a leading professional services firm helping biotech start-ups and the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies navigate the path from science to brand performance and change patients’ lives. We are committed to using strategic insights from medical to commercial to market access to solve critical problems.