Key drug approval: Solvadi for Hepatitis C

1. Expect lots of hepatitis C patients to receive this medication since it can be used without an interferon.  Patients dislike taking interferons since it makes them feel like they have the flu every time the receive it.
2. It costs $84,000 for the 12-week treatment.

Press release

Express Scripts claims they will aggressively pit the multiple hepatitis C treatments against each other in an effort to lower costs without lowering quality.  Here's the Drug Channels link.  I'll be interested to see if they can pull that off.