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GENOTROPINR, HUMATROPER, NUTROPIN AQR, NORDITROPINR, OMNITROPER, SAIZENR, TEV-TROPINR, ZOMACTONTM, ZORBTIVETM (somatropin, human growth hormone)



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  1. FDA Approved Indications:
    Genotropin
    • Pediatric: Treatment of children with growth failure due to growth hormone deficiency (GHD), Prader-Willi syndrome, Small for Gestational Age, Turner syndrome, and Idiopathic Short Stature
    • Adult: Treatment of adults with either adult onset or childhood onset GHD
    Humatrope
    • Pediatric: Treatment of children with short stature or growth failure associated with growth hormone (GH) deficiency, Turner syndrome, idiopathic short stature, SHOX deficiency, and failure to catch up in height after small for gestational age birth
    • Adult: Treatment of adults with either childhood-onset or adult-onset GH deficiency
    Nutropin AQ
    • Pediatric: Treatment of children with growth failure due to growth hormone deficiency (GHD), idiopathic short stature (ISS), Turner syndrome (TS), and chronic kidney disease (CKD) up to the time of renal transplantation
    • Adult: Treatment of adults with either childhood-onset or adult-onset GHD
    Norditropin
    • Pediatric: Treatment of children with growth failure due to growth hormone deficiency (GHD), short stature associated with Noonan syndrome, short stature associated with Turner syndrome and short stature born SGA with no catch-up growth by age 2 to 4 years
    • Adult: Treatment of adults with either adult onset or childhood onset GHD
    Omnitrope
    • Pediatric: Treatment of children with growth failure due to growth hormone deficiency (GHD), Prader-Willi Syndrome, Small for Gestational Age, Turner syndrome, and Idiopathic Short Stature
    • Adult: Treatment of adults with either adult onset or childhood onset GHD
    Saizen
    • Pediatric: Treatment of children with growth failure due to growth hormone deficiency (GHD)
    • Adults: Treatment of adults with either adult onset or childhood onset GHD
    Tev-Tropin
    • Treatment of children with growth failure due to inadequate secretion of endogenous growth hormone
    Zomacton
    • Treatment of children who have growth failure due to inadequate secretion of normal endogenous growth hormone
    Zorbtive
    • Treatment of Short Bowel Syndrome in patients receiving specialized nutritional support. Zorbtive therapy should be used in conjunction with optimal management of Short Bowel Syndrome
  2. Health Net Approved Indications and Usage Guidelines:
    CHILDREN
    • Failure or clinically significant adverse effects to Humatrope and Norditropin if requesting non-preferred products
    AND
    • Children and adolescents with growth hormone deficiency
    OR
    • Children and adolescents with Idiopathic Short Stature
    OR
    • SHOX (short stature homeobox-containing gene) deficiency in children
      • Shoxdna DxR genetic test that detects mutations and deletions in the SHOX gene

    OR

    • Chronic renal failure in pre-transplantation children
    OR
    • Prader-Willi syndrome, Turner syndrome, Noonan syndrome
    OR
    • Therapy of infantile hypoglycemia
    OR
    • Central nervous system tumor treated with radiation
    OR
    • Small for Gestational Age

    For continuation of use for the above indications, any of the following:

      • Increased growth rate by two cm over baseline in first year or one cm over baseline in 6 months for those patients undergoing a 6-month trial
      • Continued growth rate exceeds 2.5 cm/year
      • For treatment of growth hormone deficiency, child's height remains below median adult height (5'10" for males, 5'5" for females) and mid-paternal height
      • For non-growth hormone deficiency treatment, the child's height continues to be > 2.25 standard deviations below the normal adult height for gender (5' 3" for a male and 4' 11" for a female)
    ADULTS
    • Failure or clinically significant adverse effects to Humatrope and Norditropin if requesting non-preferred products
    AND
    • Adult growth hormone deficiency
    o If a patient has multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies resulting from structural hypothalamic/pituitary disease, radiation, defined CNS pathology, cranial radiation, trauma, pituitary surgery, or genetic defect affecting the GH axis with low IGF-1 and low IGFBP-3, growth hormone can be approved.
    OR
    • Short-Bowel Syndrome


  3. Coverage is Not Authorized For:
    • Non-FDA approved indications, which are not listed in the Health Net Approved Indications and Usage Guidelines section, unless there is sufficient documentation of efficacy and safety in the published literature.
  4. General Information:
    • In childhood cancer survivors who were treated with radiation to the brain/head for their first neoplasm and who developed subsequent GHD and were treated with somatropin, an increased risk of a second neoplasm has been reported. Intracranial tumors, in particular meningiomas, were the most common of these second neoplasms. In adults, it is unknown whether there is any relationship between somatropin replacement therapy and CNS tumor recurrence.
  5. Therapeutic Alternatives:
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  6. Recommended Dosing Regimen and Authorization Limit:
    Drug Dosing Regimen Authorization Limit

    Preferred

    • Humatrope
    • Norditropin

    Non Preferred

    • Nutropin/AQ
    • Saizen
    • Genotropin
    • Tev-Tropin
    • Omnitrope
    • Zomacton
    • Zorbtive
    Children and Adolescents:
    • 0.15 to 0.3 mg/kg/wk SC for growth hormone deficiency
    • Up to 0.35 mg/kg/wk SC for Turner syndrome, Prader- Willi syndrome, Noonan syndrome, renal insufficiency
    • Up to 0.48 mg/kg/wk SC for idiopathic growth failure and SGA

    Adult:

    • 0.01 to 0.04 mg/kg/wk SC
    • Maximum dose up to 0.08 mg/kg/wk
    HNCA: 6 months or rerate whichever is longer


    Short Bowel
    • 4 weeks not renewable
  7. Product Availability:
    Genotropin: Cartridge 5, 12 mg; Syringe 0.2 to 2 mg in 0.2 mg increments
    Humatrope: Cartridge 6, 12, 24 mg; Vial 5mg
    Norditropin Flexpro: Pen 5, 10, 15, 30 mg
    Nutropin AQ: Cartridge 10, 20 mg; Vial 10 mg; NuSpin 5, 10, 20 mg
    Omnitrope: Cartridge 5, 10 mg; Vial 5.8mg
    Saizen: Vial 5, 8.8 mg; Cartridge 8.8 mg
    Tev-Tropin: Vial 5 mg
    Zomacton Vial 5 mg, 10 mg
    Zorbtive: Vial 8.8 mg
  8. References:
    1. Genotropin. [Prescribing information], Ravensburg, Germany, Pharmacia Upjohn, September 2014.
    2. Humatrope. [Prescribing information], Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN, July 2014.
    3. Norditropin. [Prescribing information], Princeton, NJ, Novo Nordisk, September 2014.
    4. Nutropin AQ. [Prescribing information] South San Francisco, CA Genentech, June 2014.
    5. Omnitrope. [Prescribing information], Princeton, NJ, Sandoz, August 2014.
    6. Saizen. [Prescribing information], Rockland, MA, Serono, June 2014.
    7. Tev-Tropin. [Prescribing information], Sellersville, PA, Gate Pharmaceuticals, June 2014.
    8. Zorbtive. [Prescribing information], Rockland, MA, EDM Serono, January 2012.
    9. Zomacton. [Prescribing information], Parsippany, NJ, Ferring, March 2015.
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