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Author Topic: Closing the Hepatitis C Treatment Gap  (Read 541 times)

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Closing the Hepatitis C Treatment Gap
« on: December 18, 2024, 10:46:06 am »
Rachel Melson, DNP, FNP-C, has a tale to tell. The nurse practitioner is the director of the outreach clinic at Swope Health in Kansas City, Missouri. Her tale provides insight into why, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2022 only one in three people diagnosed with hepatitis C virus (HCV) received treatment within 12 months of their diagnosis. And this, even though for the past decade, a new era of hep C treatment not only cures the vast majority of people but is also almost completely free of side effects.

Swope Health treats many people who are currently or formerly homeless or have experienced imprisonment and drug use. Recently, says Melson, a nurse on her staff spent 35 minutes on the phone with an insurance company trying to get prior authorization to cover someone’s HCV treatment. Insurers often set high barriers for the treatment, which costs tens of thousands of dollars per course.

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