Senators Bring Back Bill Mandating Medicare Payment For Breakthrough Technologies

Four US senators are leading a bipartisan effort to bring potentially life-saving medical treatments to Medicare beneficiaries by requiring reimbursement for breakthrough technologies cleared by the FDA.

Senators Richard Burr, R-NC, Michael Bennet, D-CO, Tom Carper, D-DE, and Tim Scott, R-SC, have reintroduced the “New Opportunities for Value to Extend Lives (NOVEL) Act,” legislation first introduced in 2019 that never made it through committee.

The NOVEL Act, according to a Republican Senate aide on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has...