{"id":21490,"date":"2023-07-10T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21490"},"modified":"2023-07-10T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:49:19","slug":"statement-broader-medicare-coverage-of-leqembi-available-following-fda-traditional-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21490","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Broader Medicare Coverage of Leqembi Available Following FDA Traditional Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broader Medicare coverage is now available for Biogen and Eisai\u2019s Leqembi (the brand name for lecanemab) following the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s (FDA) move to grant traditional approval to the drug that treats individuals with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services had previously announced this would be the case and released more details on coverage today.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/statement-broader-medicare-coverage-leqembi-available-following-fda-traditional-approval\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/statement-broader-medicare-coverage-leqembi-available-following-fda-traditional-approval\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom) Broader Medicare coverage is now available for Biogen and Eisai\u2019s Leqembi (the brand name for lecanemab) following<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,32,31,15],"tags":[116,80,76,186,65],"class_list":["post-21490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-cms","category-fda","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-cms","tag-fda","tag-lecanemab-drug","tag-medicare-part-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21491,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21490\/revisions\/21491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}