Private Payers Have ‘Significant’ Role In Ensuring Confirmatory Trials Get Done, FDA’s Califf Says
Executive Summary
In an unusual appearance at AHIP annual conference on Medicare and Medicaid, the US FDA commissioner discusses accelerated approvals and argues that payers should be more than ‘passive recipients’ of research. Insurers should help develop the confirmatory data for drugs, Califf says.
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