ORLANDO — Although diagnosed hepatitis C infection was more common among people with Medicaid insurance, the treatment rates were lower compared with people who had commercial insurance, research presented here at Digestive Disease Week suggests.
“These results were pretty much what we expected,” Jenny Griffith, PharmD, senior manager of clinical epidemiology at AbbVie, told Infectious Disease News. “We knew that people who have Medicaid insurance are typically sicker, and we expected to find the same thing in HCV. The one thing that was unexpected was that the rate of diagnosed HCV was double in the Medicaid group. One hypothesis for this is that people with Medicaid typically have a lower socioeconomic status, and according to NHANES data, there is a higher prevalence of HCV among those with a lower socioeconomic status.”
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