(Reuters) Apr 5, 2018 - Medicare, the U.S. government healthcare program for the elderly and disabled, will pay hospitals close to its standard mark-up rate for administering cell therapy Yescarta for cancer outpatients, who will have a co-payment of nearly $80,000, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Winston Wong, PharmD (Posted: April 09, 2018)
CMS has set the reimbursement for their near normal outpatient rate, thus CMS is treating the CAR-T therapies as an outlier, since the normal hospital reimbursement would be based upon the DRG. Given the co-pay cap, there seems to be little margin for the institution. Need to watch can see what will happen with the additional service reimbursement request.
Professor and Director, Division of Hematology Oncology...
