21st Century Cures Revisions Tell FDA To Highlight ‘Patient Experience Data’

 
• By M. Nielsen Hobbs
  
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Lame-duck passage is goal of changes to reform legislation, which now includes highly targeted funding for FDA.

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Wednesday’s the day! That’s when the House is expected to pass (another version of) the 21st Century Cures legislation. But unlike the version that flew through the House last summer only to stop as the Senate crafted its own bill, this time both chambers appear in alignment, and the Senate is expected to pass the bill shortly. Given the somewhat more staid chronometer of the upper chamber, that means probably sometime next month.

The revised Cures bill runs just under a thousand pages and addresses everything from contractor fraud to mental...

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