CMS Input On Pivotal Trials Could Anticipate Medicare Coverage Issues – Brooks-LaSure

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure responds to US Congressional concerns about the proposed Medicare coverage policy for Alzheimer’s drugs.

CMS tries to educate Congress on Medicare coverage policy as its final Alzheimer's drug decision approaches. • Source: Alamy

US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure pitched early agency engagement with drug developers as a way to forestall possible Medicare coverage restrictions in an 18 March letter to Republican members of Congress.

She was responding to letters sent to her and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra urging reversal of the Medicare draft national coverage determination for Alzheimer’s drugs. CMS' draft decision would provide coverage only when patients are enrolled in a randomized clinical trial

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