Outsourcing and Subcontracting at Colleges and Universities: What You Need to Know. Many colleges and universities across the country are outsourcing or subcontracting, to private companies, various institutional functions and services in an effort to cut costs, and/or improve efficiency.
Hepatitis C, which afflicts some 150 million people globally, often without symptoms for years, can cause fatigue and fever, cirrhosis or liver cancer. The pill, known as Sovaldi, or generically as sofosbuvir, costs $84,000 for a standard 12-week course of treatment.
This is a huge improvement compared to older traditional treatments. Treatment range can fluctuate between 8, 12 or 24 weeks. With cost ranging from $63,000 for 8 weeks of treatment, $94,500 for 12 weeks and $189,000 for 24 weeks.But the power packed pill is still cheaper than liver transplant or cost of advanced stage liver disease with its debilitating effects.he retail cost per pill has been $1000, until just recently. There has been new release reports of Gilead coming down in price by as much as 40%, with new pharmacy contracts. With more Hep C treatment options in the market and more coming, the competition is there to bring treatment costs down.