Medicare Coverage With Evidence Development Mandate Expires After Four Years Under Senate Bill

As CMS brings public attention to process with its national coverage analysis for Alzheimer’s drugs, legislation aims to encourage quick recommendations – and strengthen collaboration with FDA.

Medicare CED Requirements Are Currently Open-Ended, but pending legislation would cap them at four years. • Source: Alamy

Medicare would be able to require ongoing evidence development as a condition of coverage for a breakthrough technology for a period of up to four years under bipartisan legislation sponsored by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and four other members of the Senate Finance Committee.

After that time, the secretary of the Health and Human Services Department would be required to submit a report to...

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