Oh, no we aren’t! Ab­b­Vie says it isn’t re­think­ing pric­ing pledge at all

Late last week Leerink’s Ge­of­frey Porges caused quite a stir when he out­lined a re­cent sit-down with the top ex­ecs at Ab­b­Vie. With the brouha­ha over drug pric­ing at the be­gin­ning of the year set­tling down, Porges said CEO Rick Gon­za­lez and CFO Bill Chase sound­ed like they were be­gin­ning to waf­fle over their pledge to lim­it price hikes on Hu­mi­ra to the sin­gle dig­its, once a year — break­ing from a steady dri­ve of price in­creas­es that has made Hu­mi­ra in­to a mas­sive block­buster.

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