Study tallies huge cost of hepatitis C drugs for prisons
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Correctional systems are obliged to care for inmates but, as a new study of Rhode Island prisons shows, treating every chronically infected inmate in the state with expensive but effective hepatitis C drugs would cost nearly twice as much as the entire correctional health budget. Treating only the sickest would still far outstrip the pharmaceutical budget.