CHLPI Faculty Director Quoted in Boston Globe Article on HCV

“After insurer changed policy, he’s winning hepatitis C fight,” is the latest in a series of stories created by Boston Globe reporter Felice Freyer on the tension between Massachusetts residents infected with Hepatitis C and insurance providers in the state with policies denying access to medically necessary medications.

The article, published Tuesday, June 7, 2016, provides an update on John Tortelli, who recently began treatment for his HCV after Tufts Health Plan changed their policy on HCV medications.

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