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Showing posts with label Aetna. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Aetna backs Gilead's hepatitis C treatment, gets discount

(Reuters) - Aetna Inc, the third-largest U.S. health insurer, said it negotiated a discount with Gilead Sciences Inc for its hepatitis C treatment and will offer it as the preferred choice to nearly 11 million commercial customers.

Aetna, which posted an updated coverage policy on its website on Friday, said it believes the price it received for Gilead's Sovaldi, and a newer combination treatment called Harvoni, is "competitive with other recently announced agreements for this class of therapy." It would not detail the size of the discount.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Aetna CEO says no decision yet on how to cover hepatitis C drugs

Jan 13 (Reuters) - The chief executive of health insurer Aetna Inc on Tuesday said that the company had not yet decided which hepatitis C drugs to cover now that there are two breakthrough treatments on the market, but said that the company was actively working on a decision.

Investors are watching closely to see how insurers decide to cover these drugs, which cost tens of thousands of dollars per treatment, after AbbVie Inc started a competitor to Gilead Sciences' breakthrough hepatitis C treatment.

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