The FDA announced today (here) that FY 2026 prescription drug program fee invoices for New Drugs have been sent out to firms via email. The Agency asks firms to review the invoices promptly and report any discrepancies that might arise. Prescription drug program fees must be paid for up to five strengths of a product approved […]
In today’s prepublication of the Federal Register (here), the FDA has announced the Generic Drug User Fees (GDUFA) for FY 2026. Every single one of the GDUFA for FY 2026 has risen, but the application fee rose more than 10% for a whopping increase of $36,327 for the submission of a new ANDA. In calculating the FY 2026 […]
For those of you who are required to pay the OMUFA manufacturer’s fees that were due on June 2, 2025 but failed to do so, your name may appear on the OMUFA Facility Arrears List (here). Remember, failure to pay the required fees will result in the FDA finding all of your OTC products misbranded. To […]
The FDA has published its Medical Device User Fees for FY 2025 (here) and the reason there are no surprises is that the fees all went up. The new fees are effective on October 1, 2024. The Federal Register Notice (FR) “provides information on how the fees for FY 2025 were determined, the payment procedures you should follow, […]
Rounding out the User Fee announcements, the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program (OMUFA) announced its FY 2025 fees on July 31, 2024. The Federal Register Notice announcing the new fees can be found here. The update was only to the OTC Monograph Order Request (OMOR) fee rates – it did not include an update for the […]
The Biosimilar User Fee Program has announced the new FY 2025 fee schedule in the pre-publication of the Federal Register Notice (here). The base fee amount for the BsUFA program for FY 2025 is $51,058,823, which is adjusted for inflation (this year is calculated at 4.1881%); along with factoring in other required estimated expenses, this results in […]
The new Generic Drug User Fees for FY 2025 have been published (see Federal Register Notice here) and, with ANDA submission rates dipping, fees for submission of new ANDAs are soaring. The individual ANDA submission fee will be going up by $69,467 next year. Remember that October 1st (the beginning of FY 2025) is right around the […]
Section 744M of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 379j-72), authorizes the FDA to assess and collect: (1) facility fees from qualifying owners of OTC monograph drug facilities and (2) fees from submitters of qualifying OTC Monograph order requests(OMORs). OMOR fee rates for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 were published on September 12, 2023 (see blog post […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the fiscal year (FY) 2024 rates for the establishment and reinspection fees related to entities (503B registered facilities)” that compound human drugs and elect to register as outsourcing facilities under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). The FD&C Act authorizes FDA to assess and […]
The schedules for the 2024 Biosimilar User Fees (BsUFA) (here) and Medical Device User Fees (MDUFA) (here) have been posted on the Federal Register prepublication page and are scheduled for final publication on August 28, 2024. BsUFA Fees The Biosimilar User Fee Amendments of 2022 (BsUFA III) authorize the FDA to assess and collect user fees for […]
