Ardelyx, AAKP and NMQF File Lawsuit to Protect Dialysis Patient Choice and Timely Access to Clinically Meaningful Medicines - Seite 2

“It is abundantly clear that moving XPHOZAH and other PLTs into the ESRD PPS will result in the imposition of severe care choice and timely access restrictions for all dialysis patients. The planned move by CMS will continue to create disincentives for the development of new and important medicines that can improve patient health and address unmet needs in an already underserved therapeautic area,” said Mike Raab, president and chief executive officer of Ardelyx. “In the eight months that our first-in-class phosphate absorption inhibitor, XPHOZAH, has been in clinical use, many patients have now been able to achieve and maintain phosphorus levels within the target range. Patients with elevated phosphorus have few options to improve their condition and are now at risk of losing choice and timely access to a brand new, FDA-approved therapy that is providing them a meaningful clinical benefit. This lawsuit attempts to stop CMS’s continued harmful statutory overreach and better protect dialysis patients’ choice and timely access to important new therapies.”

XPHOZAH was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 2023 to reduce serum phosphorus in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on dialysis as add-on therapy in patients who have an inadequate response to phosphate binders or who are intolerant of any dose of phosphate binder therapy. Eighty percent of patients with CKD on dialysis require prescription therapy to lower elevated levels of serum phosphorus. Phosphate binders are not sufficient for a majority of patients to achieve and maintain phosphorus levels within target range. XPHOZAH is a single tablet taken twice daily that offers a first-in-class mechanism of action that blocks phosphate absorption through its primary pathway.

About XPHOZAH (tenapanor)
XPHOZAH, discovered and developed by Ardelyx, is a first-in-class, phosphate absorption inhibitor with a differentiated mechanism of action that acts locally in the gut to inhibit the sodium hydrogen exchanger 3 (NHE3), thereby reducing phosphate absorption through the paracellular pathway, the primary pathway of phosphate absorption. XPHOZAH is a single tablet, taken twice daily. Diarrhea was the most common side effect experienced by patients taking XPHOZAH in clinical trials. Please see additional full Prescribing Information.