Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Senator: Cut Medicaid for hepatitis C patients who drink alcohol, go off meds

Senator: Cut Medicaid for hepatitis C patients who drink alcohol, go off meds
BY BRYAN LOWRY

TOPEKA – Medicaid recipients being treated for hepatitis C who drink alcohol or go off their medication would lose coverage under a recommendation passed by a legislative panel Tuesday.

Sen. Jim Denning, R-Overland Park, proposed that the state not cover high-cost medications for hepatitis C patients who don’t comply with treatment requirements. The proposal came toward the end of an all-day meeting of the KanCare Oversight Committee.

The seven-member committee passed the motion on a voice vote. The panel’s two Democrats, Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita, and Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka, voted against it.

“Put me down as a ‘no’ for killing people,” Ward said after the vote.

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