President Biden says his Administration is leading the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, but at the same time it is restricting access to breakthrough treatments. Members of Congress in both parties and Alzheimer’s experts are calling out this contradiction.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took the unprecedented step last year of limiting coverage of novel Alzheimer’s drugs. Normally if the Food and Drug Administration approves a drug, Medicare pays for it. But CMS said it wasn’t convinced that a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs is “reasonable and necessary” for seniors.
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