Which Pharmacy Will Exclusively List Gilead on its Hep C Formularies?
CVS Pharmacy to Get Hepatitis C Drugs Only from Gilead
By Catherine Kolonko | January 09, 2015
The battle over prescription exclusivity of new hepatitis C drugs continued recently when CVS Caremark revealed a new agreement with drug maker Gilead Sciences to list only Harvoni and Sovaldi on its formularies.
The revelation comes within weeks after Express Scripts announced it had penned an exclusive agreement with drug maker AbbVie to carryViekira Pak, a hepatitis C drug regimen newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The CVS agreement was made after the prescription benefits company, which also runs a retail pharmacy chain, completed a thorough evaluation of available hepatitis C therapies, a CVS spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement.
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