The drug is co-marketed by Pfizer. The patent is owned by Squibb Company (one of the last free standing pharma companies that Pfizer hasn’t taken over). Eliquis is not a blood thinner, like the very olde Coumadin (warfarin, which is a chemical used at higher doses as a rat killer, btw). The coumadin requires clotting checks. Eliquis does not and saves a lot of time and money for keeping clots from forming.
That said- they are raking it in on the co-market.
Eliquis is about $600 without insurance, but about $15 in India, same exact pills.
My mother and my sister-in-law both are on Coumadin. Those weekly blood tests sure mess up schedules.
Eliquis doesn’t require the blood clotting checks, but in no way does it save money. At least for me. :(