Medicare Registry-Based Studies For Alzheimer’s Drugs Still ‘Challenging’ Prospect – Former CMS Official

Medicare coverage with evidence development requirements for Alzheimer’s drugs that obtain traditional approvals may be more involved than they appear.

Should Medicare Reimbursement Be This Hard? • Source: Alamy

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is presenting its requirement that Medicare coverage for Alzheimer’s drugs will be conditioned on sponsors conducting registry-based studies as significantly less onerous than its earlier proposed randomized clinical trial requirement – and it is.

But that doesn’t mean the criteria CMS outlines for the registry studies will be easy to meet, former CMS chief...

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