I always got the impression that when Hepatitis C, when SOVALDI came down the pike, that the payers at the State level, certainly the Medicaid payers, were not ready for what was happening.
Michael Burgess: “I always got the impression that when Hepatitis C, when SOVALDI came down the pike, that the payers at the State level…”
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Burgess reflects on the unpreparedness of payers for new Hepatitis C treatments.
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