Medicare is about to penalize the 15-minute breakthrough that saves cancer patients hours of pain
In cancer care, every hour a patient spends getting treatment is an hour away from the rest of their life. It could mean another afternoon in an infusion chair instead of at home. Another childcare arrangement to make. More missed work. Another exhausting drive to a distant treatment center.
Medical advances that turn a seven-hour infusion into a minutes-long injection make living with cancer dramatically less punishing.
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Medicare should encourage that kind of progress. Unfortunately, a new proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could instead discourage it.
CMS is proposing to change how it classifies original intravenous biologics and newer subcutaneous, or injectable, versions of those drugs under Medicare’s Drug Price Negotiation Program. Developing a version of a complex biologic that can be safely administered through a brief injection rather than hours of intravenous infusion is not cheap. It can require years of research, clinical testing, and........
