The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected 35 participants for its new, voluntary Cell and Gene ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named 33 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, as participants in its Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model, which is designed to treat ...

The model was initially launched by the Biden administration in February 2023, and CMS announced that SCD would be the first focus of the model the following January. This is the ...

CMS is brokering outcomes-based agreements on behalf of Medicaid programs. Thirty-three states, along with Washington, D.C., ...

States representing about 84% of Medicaid beneficiaries are participating in an initiative that enables the U.S. government ...

The participating regions are home to 84 percent of sickle cell Medicaid patients who could gain access to gene therapies under outcomes-based agreements.

The US regulator has launched a new national initiative to help Medicaid programs fund gene therapies for sickle cell disease ...