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Author Topic: What is the wholesale acquisition cost of a human life?  (Read 6401 times)

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Offline Hep Editors

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What is the wholesale acquisition cost of a human life?
« on: November 02, 2015, 01:09:05 pm »
An excerpt from Lucinda Porter's latest Hep Exclusive: The Dark Side of Letting Insurance Payers Dictate Hepatitis C Treatment

"Given the dramatic differences [in new hep C treatments], how can Express Scripts and other payers deny coverage for Harvoni but include coverage for Viekira Pak or Technivie? It's simply and appallingly about money. The wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) for a 12-week treatment using Harvoni is $94,500. Twelve weeks of Viekira Pak costs roughly $83,300.

[In short,] Viekira Pak costs $10,000 less than 12 weeks of Harvoni. Number crunchers are going to like that, and aren't going to be thinking about the side effects, the drug interactions or the complicated pill regimen.

For more info: http://www.hepmag.com/articles/hepatitis_dark_side_2502_27953.shtml


Offline KimInTheForest

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Re: What is the wholesale acquisition cost of a human life?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2015, 01:30:48 pm »
Excellent column, Lucinda! Frightening that such crucial health care decisions are being made by bean counters (and not our doctors) who merely look at the price tag of the various drugs on offer, and not their possible consequences on patients and health care system.

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Kim Goldberg (Nanaimo, BC)
1970s: Contracted HCV (genotype 3a)
2015: Cured with Harvoni + ribavirin (12 weeks)
MY STORY: https://pigsquash.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/undetectable-my-hep-c-story/

 


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