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Less Than 25 Percent of Medicaid Beneficiaries With Hepatitis C Received Treatment Within 6 Months
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https://oig.hhs.gov/documents/evaluation/11968/OEI-BL-24-00450.pdf
Hepatitis C treatment is crucial to preventing serious health complications caused by untreated infection and to reducing further spread of the virus. However, despite the availability of highly effective drugs that can cure hepatitis C within weeks, we found that less than 25 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries with hepatitis C received treatment within 6 months of testing. Treatment rates were even lower among newly infected beneficiaries, dual-eligible beneficiaries, older adults, and children, and in certain States.
CMS should further build on its work with States to increase hepatitis C treatment rates and thereby reduce morbidity, mortality, and health care costs associated with long-term infection.
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