Patients have mixed feelings about hepatitis drugs

Patients have mixed feelings about hepatitis drugs

By Vickie Aldous
Mail Tribune

Posted Oct. 4, 2015 at 12:01 AM

Patients who have coped for years with hepatitis C have had mixed reactions to new drugs that can cure the disease, from elation about the treatment to shock about the price.

The woman said the Sovaldi cost $85,000. Medicare and her supplemental insurance policy together covered $75,000 of the cost. Her doctor helped her get $10,500 from the Patient Access Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with chronic or life-threatening diseases for whom costs limit access to critical treatments.

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