Medicare may provide national coverage for CAR-T cancer therapies: new proposal

Under a new proposal, the Medicare program would pay for expensive new cancer therapies known as CAR-T for patients across the country.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday released a so-called national coverage determination for the therapies that lays out exactly when, and for whom, Medicare will cover a given drug. The proposal specifies that Medicare will cover all FDA-approved CAR-T therapies as long as data is collected about how the patients fare, which could inform the government’s policies about paying for the therapy in the future.

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