CivicaScript Launches Initial Generic Drug, Plans Several More in Coming Years

  • Aug 11, 2022

    CivicaScript last week began selling its initial generic drug, a 250 mg abiraterone acetate tablet. It’s the first of what the health insurer- and PBM-backed nonprofit company hopes are many medications that it will produce to help patients and payers lower their drug spending.  

    The product is currently only available through Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based integrated health plan and system that owns a specialty pharmacy, and Lumicera Health Services, a specialty pharmacy owned by Navitus Health Solutions. But CivicaScript President Gina Guinasso tells AIS Health, a division of MMIT, that she expects other pharmacies to offer the medication in the coming months. 

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    Tim has been a reporter and editor for newspapers, websites and magazines for more than 20 years, including 10 years covering health care business topics. He has a deep knowledge of the managed care industry and pharmacy benefit management. He also has experience covering medical conferences and clinical and legislative health care issues. In 2014, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing selected Tim as one of 15 journalists to participate in a national symposium on the Affordable Care Act. Tim has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

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