BLOGSCAN - How US Medicare Will Pay for Cancer Drugs

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 01/27/2009 - 20:26

On the GoozNews blog, Merrill Goozner dissects the recent decision by the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to make more lenient the criteria it uses to decide which off-label anti-cancer drugs it will pay for.

Now any drug rated favorably in at least one of several drug compendia will be approved. Yet it turns out that intricate, but important conflicts of interest may affect how drugs get positive reviews in some of...

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