Express Scripts is asking a number of doctors like Mauricio Lisker-Melman whether some of their hepatitis C patients can wait until the rival drugs reach the market. Dr. Lisker-Melman, director of the hepatology program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said it is trying to distinguish between patients who need treatment right away because of the progression of their infections, and patients who could wait nine months or longer for the new regimens in development.
Such intervention by ESRX (and other PBMs) has been previously discussed on this board; bullish for ABBV/ENTA, of course.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”