CAR-T Reimbursement: Medicare Weighing Bundle For Kymriah, Yescarta In 2019
Executive Summary
Otherwise, CMS proposes pegging inpatient hospital reimbursement for CAR-T treatment to bundled rate for bone marrow transplants and potentially providing add-on payments for at least a couple of years.
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