STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Medicare will cover CAR-T; Trump health care overhaul in the wings
Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here in Boston filling in for Ed Silverman on a balmy August morning. Lots to catch up on today:
The Trump administration on Wednesday finalized long-sought rules for when Medicare will cover CAR-T treatments, often curative therapies that harness patients’ own immune cells against their cancer, STAT reports. Medicare will pay for CAR-T therapies even when used to treat conditions that aren’t FDA-approved. The two approved CAR-T treatments on the market are Yescarta from Gilead Sciences for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Kymriah from Novartis for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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