Payer restrictions of HCV treatment contradict medical society guidance, are discriminatory

WASHINGTON ─ Hepatitis C virus is moving from chronic disease to curable; however, there are obstacles to eradication and “the hope of ending the hepatitis C epidemic kindled by the new regimens will be extinguished,” said Brian R. Edlin, MD, of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, here.“This is a watershed moment…in the history of medicine,” Edlin said of HCV treatment. “We are now crossing the threshold where for the first-time, chronic, lifelong, life threatening viral disease has finally now been transformed from being incurable to being readily curable.”