On Monday, December 10, ACCC and 338 patient, provider, and caregiver groups that are part of the Part B Access for Seniors and Physicians Coalition have sent a letter to Congressional leaders asking them to block the Trump Administration's Medicare Part B international price referencing demo. Chief among concerns are the creation of a "middleman" role to negotiate drug pricing; the demo's international price indexing (IPI) mechanism, and its proposed changes to provider reimbursement.
Read the full letter here. Read coverage of the letter here.
Posted 12/11/2018
Decentralized clinical trial approaches, including remote consent, telehealth, local laboratory and imaging services, and more, can help reduce some of the many barriers that prevent eligible patients from participating in trials. But as the participants in ACCC’s Advancing Decentralized Clinical Trials in the Community Setting Roundtable Series emphasized, implementing DCT elements is not simply a matter of adopting new technology. Doing so successfully requires thoughtful workflows and oversight structures that consider equity, scalability, and sustainability.
