Gilead’s Remdesivir Pricing Sets ‘Promising’ Precedent For Future COVID-19 Drugs

Highly anticipated decision bodes well for pricing of other future treatments for the disease, the US Institute for Clinical and Economic Review suggests.

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Gilead Sciences Inc. made a “responsible” pricing decision for its remdesivir based on currently available information about its usefulness in treating COVID-19, the US Institute for Clinical and Economic Review said in a statement released 29 June.

Gilead has announced the drug will cost $390 per vial for government payers in developed countries and $520 for commercial payers in the US. That translates to a cost of $2,340 for governments and $3,120 for US health plans for a six-vial, five-day course of treatment

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