CMS coverage policies restrict patient access to important treatment options for Alzheimer’s disease

There’s been a lot of discussion this year about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) national coverage determination (NCD) for new Alzheimer’s treatments finalized earlier this year in...
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CMS coverage decision restricts access to treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

This year’s Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month offers an important opportunity to remember the severe toll that Alzheimer’s takes on patients and family caregivers. Unfortunately, this year also...
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PhRMA submits comments urging CMS to withdraw coverage proposal

In comments submitted this week, PhRMA urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to withdraw its proposed national coverage determination (NCD) for monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) for the...
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New report shows more than 260 medicines in development to fight neurodegenerative diseases

With neurodegenerative diseases affecting millions of individuals in the United States, now is an important time to spotlight the increasing impact these diseases have on our country’s aging...
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How research evolves and brings new hope to patients

Before medicines can be made available to patients, they often begin as ideas that are based on newly discovered molecules and cells, strange phenomena or little-understood processes in the body. The...
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Continued R&D into Alzheimer’s disease means hope for patients, families and caregivers

More than 6 million Americans, most of them age 65 or older, live with Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating degenerative brain disease and the most common form of dementia. After heart disease and...
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Guest Post: Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month by taking action on health equity

Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. Today, we are pleased to welcome...
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Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing plan could result in 56 fewer new medicines over 10 years

A new analysis from economic consulting firm Vital Transformation shows that Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing plan, H.R.3, could result in at least 56 fewer innovative medicines for patients over...
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New report details the setbacks and challenges to Alzheimer’s research

Illustrating the challenges of developing medicines to fight Alzheimer’s disease, a new analysis found that between 1998 and 2017, there were 146 unsuccessful medicines in clinical trials for...
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Disrupting Alzheimer's

We are living in a new era of medicine, where treatments and even cures once believed to be impossible are today a reality. But this immense progress does not apply universally and there have been...
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