ALTOONA - A large drug company is now giving free medicine to a local
man, denied treatment for a deadly disease. Mike Miller, from Bedford
County, is one of more than 100 patients in our region and millions in
the United States with hepatitis C, a virus that leads to cirrhosis and
liver cancer.
A few weeks ago, nurse Karen Brandt held up a stack of insurance company denials she received for Mike Miller , alone.
"I
was dealing with so many shutdowns every time we tried to get hepatitis
C medicine authorized and I started to think this is crazy I need to do
something," she says.
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