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• Medicare Appears to be Reversing Avastin Ruling

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 118
  In my October 12 Blog post I wrote about Medicares foolish decision to reimburse retinal specialists less than their costs for treating macular degeneration with the much- less expensive drug, Avastin.  This decision would cost our government millions of dollars annually.  I questioned how this system could ever ...
  2 weeks ago

• CMS Blinks Over Avastin Medicare Coding

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  After pressure from Congress and concern from doctors, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid now plans to reverse recently enacted reimbursement coding for Avastin, which is used to treat wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness among seniors and the elderly. The drug, you may recall, is often used ...
  2 weeks ago

• Newest Trends in Eye Care From Annual AAO Meeting I

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 118
  This week is the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).  Over the next few days I will report on a few of the latest trends being presented at the meeting in San Francisco.  Many of these short synopsises will be taken from "Academy Live" an e-mail; alert from the AAO.  Each synopsis ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letters from Kohl: Avastin, Lucentis and CMS Coding Change

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 428
  Genentech Inc. has two biological agents that can treat Age related Macular Degeneration (AMD)   a leading cause of blindness in the elderly Avastin and Lucentis. The cost of each drug is significantly different and only one is approved by the FDA for that indication. While Avastin can run $60 per patient (off ...
  3 weeks ago

• This is the Agency that is Going to Bend the Cost Curve?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  Writing in the New York Times , Andrew Pollack reports that Medicare is about to stop paying for Avastin as a treatment for eye diseases. He writes, “But the way the bureaucratic gears mesh in this case, the move could end up costing Medicare itself hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and individual patients ...
  4 weeks ago

• Avastin vs Lucentis: Why our Govt Will Never Manage Healthcare Efficiently!

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 118
  There have been several articles in the New York Times discussing how the current health care proposals currently being debated will do little to control health care costs.  In my opinion government control of health care and health care cost control are mutually exclusive!  A case in point:  the Avastin vs ...
  4 weeks ago

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