A New Patient Voice In The Medicare/Alzheimer’s Drug Coverage Debate

Individuals with Down syndrome are particularly vulnerable to the disease yet would be excluded from participating in clinical trials described in the draft Medicare coverage policy for Alzheimer’s drugs.

Comments To CMS Highlight Need For Alzheimer's Treatments For People With Down Syndrome • Source: Alamy

Advocates for individuals with Down syndrome have submitted close to 2,000 comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services opposing the agency’s draft Medicare coverage decision for amyloid-directed monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer’s because it would exclude individuals with intellectual disabilities from access to the treatments.

The draft national coverage determination, issued in January, proposes that Medicare will only cover Biogen, Inc./Eisai Co., Ltd.’s...

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