Denmark Said No to a DKK 2.5m CAR-T in January and Yes Once Kite Tied the Price to Response

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Denmark Said No to a DKK 2.5m CAR-T in January and Yes Once Kite Tied the Price to Response

Athithi Verma· 6 October 2026· 2 min read· Synopulse

The Danish Medicines Council, Medicinrådet, said on 2 October that it now recommends Tecartus (brexucabtagene autoleucel), Kite Pharma’s one-time CAR-T therapy, for adults with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma after two or more prior therapies including a BTK inhibitor, and for adults aged 26 and over with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. The council rejected both uses in January on cost and uncertain benefit, and credits the reversal to an effect-based risk-sharing agreement, negotiated by the regions’ procurement body Amgros, under which the price depends on whether patients respond. At the same 30 September meeting it kept Kyowa Kirin’s burosumab (Crysvita) for children with X‑linked hypophosphataemia, let some start earlier and added patients whose bones have stopped growing, for a limited period around corrective surgery.

DKK 2.5m
List price of one Tecartus infusion, before the response-based terms
9 a year
Danish Tecartus candidates: about six with MCL and three with ALL
DKK 16.2m
Burosumab extra cost per patient over a course of up to 17 years
1 Jan 2027
When newly eligible XLH patients can start burosumab
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Denmark now prices uncertainty into the contract. The council credits the Tecartus reversal to the agreement, and chair Birgitte Klindt Poulsen said it wants more of them. Burosumab is the slower version of the same bargain: a 2019 yes on uncertain evidence, a request for follow-up data, and a lower price when the file reopened.

  • Cell and gene therapy companies holding a Danish no: the route back is a contract. Tecartus moved from rejection to recommendation once the risk of non-response shifted to the company, with the terms kept confidential. Single-digit patient numbers cap the payer’s exposure, which makes a pay-on-response offer easy to accept. Expect Amgros to ask for the same structure on the next one-time therapy it doubts.
  • Rare disease launch teams: a conditional yes is a future price review. Burosumab’s follow-up data supported earlier starts and a surgical window, but the council still calls the cost very high relative to effect, and the severity principle carried the decision. With new patients put at zero to two a year in the recommendation, Kyowa Kirin traded a lower price for a narrow expansion and a renewed listing.
  • Signposts: the next agreement and the first Danish data. Watch whether Amgros signs an effect-based deal outside CAR-T, and whether the council publishes the real-world response data the chair says this agreement will collect. Nordic payers reviewing one-time therapies now have a Danish precedent to cite.

Read the original source on Tecartus (Medicinrådet) →
Read the original source on burosumab (Medicinrådet) →

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