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Medicare Coverage For Alzheimer’s Treatments Should Have Flexibilities For Labeling Differences, Developers say

 
• By Cathy Kelly

Lilly and Genentech express concern that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will set Medicare coverage parameters for their Alzheimer’s drugs even before all the data is in.

Drug industry comments respond to Medicare national coverage analysis. • Source: Alamy

The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services’ upcoming national coverage determination for amyloid-directed monoclonal antibody drugs for Alzheimer’s disease should be flexible enough to provide “appropriate” coverage for different therapies in the class based on individual labeling, Eli Lilly and Company and Genentech, Inc. urge in separate comments submitted to CMS 11 August.

A “class-based coverage determination may be premature,” Lilly said, adding: “We urge CMS to ensure that its coverage decision...

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