Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Delaware will treat all Medicaid patients with hepatitis C

Delaware will treat all Medicaid patients with hepatitis C

The state of Delaware said Tuesday that it would phase in a new policy to treat all hepatitis C patients in its Medicaid program.

States have been under pressure from the Obama Administration and lawsuits - in Delaware's case, Harvard Law School's Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation had threatened litigation - to abandon money-saving policies that limited treatment with effective but costly new medications to the sickest patients.



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