Saturday, March 14, 2015

Specialty drugs save lives, come with daunting price tags

Specialty drugs save lives, come with daunting price tags
Posted: Saturday, March 14, 2015 8:00 am

Mati Munoz lost her liver to hepatitis C, and the virus was attacking its transplanted replacement last year when her doctor prescribed a drug combination that could save the organ.
She just needed $7,000 for an initial payment not covered by her Medicare prescription plan.
“I felt sunken,” the 65-year-old Woodbridge, New Jersey, woman said. “I thought, ‘How am I going to come up with this?”

Advocates say the problem is growing as coverage shrinks, particularly in plans sold on the public exchanges created by the health-care overhaul. Use of the drugs also has grown since some blockbuster hepatitis C treatments hit the market.
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