Louisiana requests bids for subscription-based HCV model

Louisiana’s Department of Health took the next step Thursday in its subscription-based payment model, soliciting offers from drug manufacturers to negotiate five years of unrestricted access to an HCV therapy for its Medicaid and prison population.

The Department of Health, which hopes to have a partner in place by July 1, is seeking to treat over 10,000 of the 39,000 HCV patients among these groups by YE20...