CVS to cover Gilead's hepatitis C drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi exclusively

6 January 2015

US pharmacy benefits manager CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has entered into a deal with US biotech major Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD) for exclusive coverage of the firm’s hepatitis C drugs Harvoni (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir) and Sovaldi (sofosbuvir).

Harvoni and Sovaldi are to be the only two hepatitis C drugs available through the drug benefit manager’s standard commercial plans, health exchange marketplaces and Medicare Part D and Medicaid formularies.

Christine Cramer, spokesperson for CVS, said: "Our goal was to create the lowest net-cost solution for the entire population of patients with all genotypes of hepatitis C. When making this decision, we evaluated a wide variety of factors including duration of therapy, relative distribution of genotype and cost of the individual agents in the category as well as the results of a comprehensive clinical review of the different hepatitis C regimens."

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