Outsourcing and Subcontracting at Colleges and Universities: What You Need to Know. Many colleges and universities across the country are outsourcing or subcontracting, to private companies, various institutional functions and services in an effort to cut costs, and/or improve efficiency.
Hepatitis C, which afflicts some 150 million people globally, often without symptoms for years, can cause fatigue and fever, cirrhosis or liver cancer. The pill, known as Sovaldi, or generically as sofosbuvir, costs $84,000 for a standard 12-week course of treatment.
That increase is likely due to individuals, primarily baby boomers, infected with hepatitis C who developed severe liver disease. In the same eight-year period, medical costs for those hospitalizations grew nearly fourfold, from $900 million to an estimated $3.5 billion.e know that as many as 75% of adults infected with hepatitis C are baby boomers. We know the disease is potentially deadly, killing some 17,000 Americans a year. But the CDC researchers conclude that the trend toward worsening outcomes and higher costs for untreated hepatitis C can be reversed. Yes, reversed.