Express Scripts Covers $1 Alternative to $750 Pill Daraprim
- Drug benefit manager partners with Imprimis Pharmaceuticals
- Turing Pharmaceuticals raised Daraprim's price 5,000%
A $1 Substitute for Turing's $750 Daraprim Pill
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The U.S.’s biggest manager of prescription drug benefits said it will cover a $1-a-capsule alternative to the anti-parasitic treatment Daraprim, which costs $750 a pill after Turing Pharmaceuticals AG raised the drug’s price from $13.50 this year.
Express Scripts Holding Co. said in a statement that it’s partnering with Imprimis Pharmaceuticals Inc., a San Diego-based company specializing in compounded drugs. In October, Imprimis started making a medicine for as little as $1 a capsule that includes the active ingredient in Daraprim, pyrimethamine, together with a vitamin called leucovorin that Daraprim is usually used with.