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Gilead’s HCV Authorized Generics Effort Will Draw Market Share From AbbVie

 
• By Joseph Haas

By marketing its own authorized generic versions of blockbuster HCV combos Epclusa and Harvoni, Gilead may eat into AbbVie’s large market share edge in US government-insured patients.

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Gilead Sciences Inc.’s new spin-out company to sell authorized generics of its hepatitis C fixed-dose combination products Harvoni and Epclusa was packaged as offering potential out-of-pocket savings to patients – and it could do so – but the gambit should also draw market share away from AbbVie Inc. among US government-insured patients.

Foster City, Calif.-based Gilead announced Sept

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