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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is flexing its new authority in a proposed rule intended to clamp down on drug prices by providing more transparency in the Medicaid program.
As the clock ticks toward the “full,” or traditional, approval date for Biogen Inc./Eisai Co. Inc.’s Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi (lecanemab), the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is facing increasing pressure to get the structures in place to ensure Medicare beneficiaries have access to the drug when the approval comes.
Despite congressional concerns about accelerated approval, the U.S. FDA’s use of the pathway is not slowing down. If anything, it’s picked up pace since Congress gave the agency stronger authority last year to monitor drugs approved based on a surrogate endpoint and to ensure that confirmatory trials are progressing in a timely way.
