Medicare Payment Relief For CAR-T Limited To Higher Add-On Payments In 2020
Executive Summary
US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services concludes structural changes to existing payment systems to accommodate the high cost of Novartis’ Kymriah and Gilead’s Yescarta are still “premature.”
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