Horizon Pharma plc Provides Comment on Express Scripts' Business Practices - Seite 2

"Profiteering, particularly in the case of Express Scripts which recognized more than $38 billion in revenues from specialty and home-delivery services in 2014, and anti-competitive behavior has to stop because ultimately it's the patients who suffer and the impact on the patient is far reaching," Walbert added. "As Linden Care stated in its legal complaint, 'if Linden does not receive a stay pending a hearing, the termination will remain in effect, resulting in innocent patients potentially missing medications due to a physical inability to obtain them through other channels, experiencing withdrawal symptoms from narcotics or experiencing errors in taking medications, thereby placing their well-being in jeopardy.' This isn't the right thing to do for patients and as an industry that exists to serve the patient, we need to take a stand to ensure that regardless of the hurdles we face from pharmacy benefit managers, we continue to do whatever possible to ensure patients have access to the medicines their physicians prescribe."

Statement Previously Released on November 10, 2015
Our primary concern is for the patients who, based on the profit driven actions of Express Scripts, may be denied access to medicines that are prescribed by their physicians. We are committed to ensuring that regardless of these actions, patients will have access to the medicines they need.

Less than five percent of our net sales are from prescriptions that are filled by Linden Care and processed by Express Scripts. In addition, we have a diverse group of pharmacies that participate in our patient support program and no pharmacy that participates in our primary care patient support programs account for more than 13 percent of our net sales. 

The notion that Linden Care is a so-called "captive pharmacy" of Horizon Pharma is entirely false. At best Express Scripts is being reckless in its allegations and at worse it is intentionally attempting to mislead investors. As previously stated, all pharmacies that distribute Horizon branded medicines are fully independent. Horizon does not own or have an ownership stake in any pharmacy and does not possess an option to purchase any pharmacy. In addition, the relationship with these pharmacies is non-exclusive where each of these pharmacies may also fulfill prescriptions for other drug manufacturers.