CMS finalizes Medicare coverage policy for Alzheimer鈥檚 drug聽

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday to cover only for Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in qualifying clinical trials monoclonal antibodies that target amyloid to treat Alzheimer鈥檚 disease when approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA last year approved the first such Alzheimer鈥檚 treatment, Biogen鈥檚 Aduhelm (aducanumab), using its accelerated approval pathway.
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