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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A total of 33 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, agreed to participate in the U.S. CMS’ voluntary, outcomes-based program aimed at helping state Medicaid programs cover high-priced ...

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

CMS has reached agreements with drug manufacturers to provide gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease to Medicaid recipients under a new outcomes-based model. A total of 33 states, including the ...

The Biden administration developed a Cell and Gene Therapy payment model under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which will provide states with an outcomes-based discounted price and provide ...

While cell and gene therapies (CGTs) can be life-changing for patients with complex and rare conditions, patients and caregivers face challenges in the pursuit of these treatments, according to a ...

Kendric Cromer, 12, the first commercial patient for Bluebird Bio's gene therapy to cure his sickle cell disease, begins his treatment at Children's National Hospital in Washington on May 1, 2024.