Media Statement

April 15, 2024

Statement on Department of Justice Filing Related to EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection 2 mg

Regeneron provided the following information regarding the False Claims Act complaint the United States filed against the Company, captioned United States ex rel. Nunnelly v.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The complaint alleges that Regeneron misreported the Average Sales Price (ASP) for EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection 2 mg by not taking into account credit card service fees incurred by its distributors and reimbursed by Regeneron. Regeneron believes the complaint is meritless and illustrates a fundamental misunderstanding by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of drug price reporting standards. Regeneron will vigorously defend this case in court. The filing of this lawsuit will not change our practices with respect to reimbursement of credit card fees incurred by our distributors.

Reimbursing credit card service fees to distributors is not a price concession and does not affect EYLEA's price. Congress has provided by statute how to calculate ASP. The statute requires manufacturers to include a specific list of price concessions in ASP. Credit card service fees are not included on that list. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has not exercised its rulemaking authority to define credit card service fees as a price concession under the statute.

In addition, Bona Fide Service Fees are not included in ASP per applicable statute and regulation. Regeneron is reimbursing distributors for credit card service fees incurred by the distributors performing services on Regeneron's behalf, and such fees are thus Bona Fide Service Fees that do not reduce the ASP for a drug.

Both CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services-Office of the Inspector General have publicly acknowledgedto Congress the need to provide further guidance to the pharmaceutical industry regarding such Bona Fide Service Fees. Multiple pharmaceutical companies have repeatedly requested clarification from CMS regarding the application of the Bona Fide Service Fee test. Yet rather than allow CMS to engage in notice and comment rulemaking, or even to provide informal guidance, DOJ has inappropriately elected to file litigation under the False Claims Act.

About Regeneron

Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for over 35 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to numerous FDA-approved treatments and product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases,

allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare diseases.

Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite® technologies, such as VelocImmune®, which uses unique genetically humanized mice to produce optimized fully human antibodies and bispecific antibodies, and through ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.

For more information about Regeneron, please visit www.Regeneron.comor follow Regeneron on LinkedIn.

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