Healthcare Finance News December 7, 2022
The company believes the equivalent therapies will lower healthcare costs while providing more choice and flexibility.
Pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, part of Cigna’s Evernorth subsidiary, will be adding Humira biosimilars to its formulary in 2023 as preferred products, which will be available to patients with inflammatory conditions.
A number of biosimilar therapies clinically equivalent to Humira are expected to become available next year, all approved by the Food and Drug Administration and with no clinically meaningful differences in safety and efficacy, according to a statement from Evernorth.
The company expects these equivalent therapies will help to drive down healthcare costs and give patients and providers more choice and flexibility.
“Lack of competition allows sky-high prescription drug prices,” said...
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