A Real And Present Threat To Alzheimer's Patients
RealClearHealth | June 18, 2025 | Wayne Winegarden
It’s a quintessential government outcome. A program intended to increase access to promising medical innovations is actually preventing Medicare beneficiaries from receiving FDA-approved treatments.
Medicare’s “coverage with evidence development” (CED) was never authorized by Congress. Instead, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the program in 2005 by leveraging its authority to determine which medical technologies patients can access.
This is a tragedy playing out for people with Alzheimer’s disease.
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