Part B Demo Comments Overwhelmingly Negative, Uniform In Content

May 23 2016

More than 90% of comments submitted on proposed Medicare payment experiment for Part B drugs were negative, and most were submitted by patients and health care providers.

Stakeholders on both sides of the proposed payment demonstration for Medicare Part B drugs appear to have made efforts to organize comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, with opponents constituting the overwhelming majority of the stakeholder submissions.

About 92% of the approximately 1,300 comments posted online at regulations.gov as of May 18 were negative, based on an...