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Harvoni Cost Will Be Roughly Equal To Sovaldi For Most HCV Patients (Updated)

Sovaldi/ledipasvir combo pill – the first one-tablet, oral hepatitis C option in the U.S. – was approved Oct. 10 with a price of $94,500 for a 12-week course of therapy, similar to the cost of Sovaldi plus interferon and ribavirin. Insurers group says Gilead “seems to believe it has a blank check.”

For the majority of patients, Gilead Sciences Inc.’s once-daily oral combo hepatitis C therapy Harvoni will be priced comparatively to the total price of treatment with Sovaldi plus interferon and ribavirin, but there will be a substantial discount for a minority of patients for whom a shorter treatment span could be appropriate.

FDA cleared the single-tablet combination of the nucleoside polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir (approved as a single agent as Sovaldi) plus the...

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