Saturday, December 2, 2017

Colorado lifts restrictions for treating hepatitis C patients; no longer need to have advanced liver damage to receive drugs

Colorado lifts restrictions for treating hepatitis C patients; no longer need to have advanced liver damage to receive drugs
By Jennifer Brown |The Denver Post
December 1, 2017 at 6:43 pm

Friday’s decision by the state Medicaid department comes in the midst of a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado and after top health officials asked the department to lift restrictions that determined which patients could receive life-altering treatment.

It also comes as the price of the antiviral drugs — which cure up to 90 percent of patients — has dropped from $84,000 per treatment to about $14,000.

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