{"id":4410,"date":"2016-09-23T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2016-09-22T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:34:01","slug":"colorado-is-latest-state-to-be-sued-for-restricting-access-to-hepatitis-c-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4410","title":{"rendered":"Colorado is latest state to be sued for restricting access to hepatitis C drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">Y<\/span>ou can add Colorado to the list of states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/05\/27\/washington-state-hepatitis-drug-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\">being sued<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> for refusing to widen access to the hepatitis C medications in its state Medicaid program. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2016\/09\/22\/colorado-sued-for-restricting-hepatitis-c-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ed Silverman for STAT) You can add Colorado to the list of states being sued1 for refusing to widen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicaid","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}