UnitedHealthcare Prefers Basaglar Biosimilar At Lantus' Expense

UnitedHealthcare's decision to exclude Lantus in favor of Basaglar begs the question of how low biosimilar pricing will go, amid soaring diabetes costs.

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[UnitedHealthcare] said that the ability to secure "very competitive pricing" led to giving Eli Lilly & Co.'s Basaglar copycat insulin preferred status on its commercial formulary, while cutting Sanofi's Lantus out and downgrading Novo Nordisk AS's Levemir.

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