Not All mABs For Alzheimer’s Are Created Equal, Manufacturers Tell Medicare

Lilly, Eisai and Genentech argue against CMS’s class-wide approach in its coverage for amyloid-directed monoclonal antibodies, predicting research on their in-development for Alzheimer’s drugs will provide confirmatory evidence of clinical benefit in the months ahead.

Data On Three Other mABs Expected In Coming Months • Source: Alamy

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should only condition Medicare coverage for monoclonal antibody drugs for Alzheimer’s disease on further evidence generation when confirmatory evidence is absent, instead of imposing additional clinical trial research requirements prospectively on all drugs in the class, Eli Lilly and Company urged in comments to the agency.

“We believe that CMS should finalize an NCD that provides for Medicare coverage of all anti-amyloid mABs in a core...

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