Here is the take on the previous criteria by a well-known medical professional HCV activist
"First, the 2 insurance documents in this thread open the door to treating F0-F4. The only restrictions they continue to have that aren't consistent with the HCV guidelines
www.hcvguidelines.org/ are those pertaining to drug and alcohol use. However, there are ways to work around that.
RE Child-Pugh - technically it could be applied to everyone, but its only clinically significant when someone is cirrhotic. In the case of the Anthem criteria, they are using to determine which treatment is appropriate, and not using it to exclude earlier fibrosis stages."
"About the Child-Pugh, here's another way of looking at it:
You could apply it to anyone, but why? Just like you could apply the Glasgow Coma Scale to assess my consciousness level, but given that I am sitting at my computer rather than in a neuro ward, you wouldn't.
So, if a patient presents with obvious cirrhosis, than a C-P score is warranted."
I still can't decipher it. I believe it was crafted to be that way.
I'm no good at math either.
Mike