Any Medicare Study Requirements For Alzheimer’s Drugs Should Be Time Limited, CMS Told

Alliance for Aging Research worries the studies could drag on as long as the nine years Biogen is allowed for collecting Phase IV clinical data on its Aduhelm.

Registry Stewards May Have Financial Incentives To Draw Out Study Duration • Source: Alamy

If the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services decides to condition Medicare coverage for Alzheimer’s drugs on collection of further evidence, it should set a limit on how long the studies can be conducted, Alliance for Aging Research president and CEO Sue Peschin suggested in a CMS call with stakeholders.

The call was meant to inform the Medicare national coverage analysis for amyloid-directed monoclonal antibody drugs for Alzheimer’s disease that...

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