July 28, 2016
July 28 marks World Hepatitis Day, part of the World Health Organization’s effort to eliminate hepatitis B and C by 2030.
June 30, 2016
Starting July 1, patients battling hepatitis C in Delaware will have newfound access to direct-acting antiviral cures – a victory now shared with patients in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Washington.
May 12, 2016
Just as new data shows hepatitis C deaths at an all-time high, New York state has taken a bold move to make curative treatments more available.
April 7, 2016
Health insurers who deny patients access to hepatitis C cures could be violating federal law, explains an April 5 letter from the Alliance for Patient Access and The AIDS Institute to Florida’s insurance commissioner.
March 3, 2016
Treatment options for U.S. veterans battling hepatitis C just got better.
February 18, 2016
Patients who battle both hepatitis C and a health plan that denies coverage for the cure have a new recourse: legal action.
February 16, 2016
For most of history, hepatitis C has been incurable after the development of chronic infection.
February 4, 2016
In a November 2015 notice the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services warned that states rationing costly hepatitis C cures may “unreasonably restrict access” for Medicaid patients.
December 15, 2015
The near elimination of hepatitis C could be in sight, suggests new research from Yale University.
November 6, 2015
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a message for state Medicaid programs: coverage policies cannot block hepatitis C patients’ access to “effective, clinically appropriate and medically necessary treatments.”
