Wednesday, August 3, 2016

HCV Patients Face Obstacles to Treatment

HCV Patients Face Obstacles to Treatment
by Shannon Firth
Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today

Barriers include high-cost prices, restrictive state regulations

WASHINGTON -- Hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients, and particularly those on Medicare and Medicaid, continue to battle for access to curative treatments and coverage of those therapies, according to participants at a briefing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

The briefing was sponsored by The AIDS Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for patients with HIV and HCV. The session was billed as "An Update on Hepatitis C In the United States," and speakers included a CDC official, a representative of the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and others

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