Market Access & Health Economics

What does it take to make a payer say yes?

Cogience partners with pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device teams to build the evidence, strategy, and submission package that earns a payer yes - faster, leaner, and senior-led throughout.

Rare, Ultra-rare & Orphan Drugs

What does the access case look like when patient numbers are small?

Specialised expertise for low patient volumes, fragmented evidence bases, and the most economically sensitive markets in healthcare. Tailored services for sensitive markets and rare-disease assets.

25+ Years in market access & health economics
25+ Years of project management & technology delivery
50+ Global engagements led by senior experts
3 Sectors: pharma, biotech, medical devices
Global Payer advisory network across key HTA markets

Transforming Complex Science
into Market Access Outcomes

We work across the full market access and evidence lifecycle - from early asset strategy to reimbursement and launch.

Strategy & Market Access

Global and regional market access strategy, pricing and launch sequencing, competitive landscape, payer research, and due diligence. Includes international reference pricing (IRP) simulation and optimised launch sequencing to protect price corridors across markets.

Health Economics & Evidence

Systematic literature reviews and network meta-analyses, individual-patient-data and single-arm trial analysis, survival-curve extraction, cost-effectiveness and budget-impact models, and real-world evidence strategy. Built to withstand HTA scrutiny - including PICO alignment ahead of submission and EU JCA-ready data packages.

HTA & Reimbursement

HTA landscape assessments, submission strategy and dossier development, payer engagement and advisory boards, reimbursement negotiation support. We work across the regulatory–HTA "double gate", so data generated for FDA or EMA also meets payer value requirements, including the EU Joint Clinical Assessment (JCA).

Value Communication

Global Value Dossiers, value proposition development, payer communication materials, and scientific publications strategy. Evidence packages that can be updated as new real-world data emerges, not static documents.

Project & Delivery Management

End-to-end project management, cross-functional workshop facilitation, and training. On time, on scope, on budget.

AI Enablement

We build the AI workflows your access team will actually run (literature triage, evidence pipelines, dossier drafting, payer-decision simulation) and hand them over with the governance, validation and training to use them safely. Your experts stay in charge of every decision; the AI does the legwork.

Faster decisions. Leaner teams.
Zero margin for error.

HTA windows are tightening, the EU JCA is changing how submissions are planned and resourced, and lean teams are expected to produce evidence at enterprise scale. AI now does much of the legwork. The judgement still has to come from people who can defend it.

Speed

Evidence windows are shrinking: an EU JCA scope reaches the developer only 60–100 days before the dossier is due. AI prioritises the reading, drafts from approved sources and writes model code, so senior experts spend their time on the decisions.

Efficiency

Senior teams, not large ones. Reusable value architectures and AI-augmented analysis let a small senior team cover more ground without dropping a review step.

Accuracy

One mis-coded comparator can sink a submission. AI checks flag inconsistencies; a senior expert verifies every number, comparator and citation before it leaves us, so what you submit is what you meant.

Cogience.Advise: payer insight at global scale,
without the schedule conflicts.

Cogience.Advise is our virtual advisory board: an async-first engagement platform that convenes 5–10 senior payers, HTA evaluators, KOLs, and patient advocates over two to three weeks. Built for indications where in-person advisory boards are impractical - orphan drugs, multi-market launches, time-pressured strategy work.

  • Senior moderation throughout - no junior layer
  • HTA template library: NICE HST, CADTH, HAS, AMNOG, LSDP, US payer archetypes
  • AI drafts the summaries; the moderator owns every interpretation
  • Executive summary in 72 hours, full report in two weeks

Research & thinking

Continuous evidence generation under the EU JCA

The EU joint clinical assessment sets its scope when the EMA application is filed. We look at what that means for evidence plans, PICOs and the national pricing work that still follows.

3 min read

G-BA's first JCA-informed AMNOG decision: what Ojemda shows

Germany has closed its first AMNOG assessment built on an EU joint clinical assessment report. Ojemda shows the JCA adds to national work rather than replacing it, and why single-arm and orphan programmes need to plan for PICO scoping now.

3 min read

"As a full-time consultant working with my Market Access team, Farzana impressed me with both her industry knowledge and technical pricing expertise."

David Adelman VP Strategy & Program Management, Edwards Lifesciences Medical devices · Global pricing

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