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State Rep. Dianne Primavera, a four-time cancer survivor, has joined a fight to push Medicare to pay for an ovarian cancer drug covered in other states but not Colorado.
Primavera, D-Broomfield, fired off a letter Wednesday to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Colorado after reading about the drug disparity in The Denver Post.
“How can I help you effect this change in policy, quickly, before one more Colorado woman dies from ovarian cancer by dint of being on the wrong side of a state border?” she wrote.
Medical claims for Avastin are being rejected for ovarian cancer patients in Colorado because the state’s Medicare contractor has chosen not to cover the drug.
