ACLU sues Colorado Medicaid over denial of treatment for thousands of hep C patients

ACLU sues Colorado Medicaid over denial of treatment for thousands of hep C patients
By Jennifer Brown

Colorado’s Medicaid department was slapped with a federal class-action lawsuit Monday led by a Denver man denied treatment for the life-threatening hepatitis C virus because he has government insurance.

Robert Lee Cunningham, represented by ACLU Colorado, is among thousands of Coloradans denied access to a breakthrough drug with a 90-percent cure rate because under Medicaid policy, he “has not yet suffered measurable and potentially irreversible liver damage,” the lawsuit says.

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