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.
The hepatitis C medication Sovaldi costs $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment and accounted for more than $3 billion in Medicare spending.(Courtesy of Gilead Sciences/AP).ills for a third drug, Olysio, often taken in conjunction with Sovaldi, reached $821 million. Medicare also spent $157 million on older hepatitis C drugs in 2014, bringing the total spending for the category to more than $4.7 billion.