US FDA’s Califf: Payers Should Ask How They Can Help Answer Clinical Research Questions

Instead of asking why confirmatory trials take so long, the FDA commissioner suggests insurance companies ask what they can do to help answer those questions.

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Payers should be asking how they can help answer clinical research questions, along with industry, and other stakeholders, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf said.

During the Friends of Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Califf suggested that private payers, as well as the Centers for Medicare...