Is Average Sales Price plus 6 percent the right amount to pay doctors under the Medicare Part B program?
After my conversation with Gilman, I called MD Anderson and asked to talk with somebody about the $18 million grant for a biotech incubator.
When the White House proposed a $1 billion startup fund for the National Cancer Moonshot, a largely unexpected directive to reform FDA raised many questions among oncology insiders.
Gilman's letter of resignation, dated May 8, 2012, concludes with a hard slam:
In early 2012, Gilman was under the impression that CPRIT was functioning smoothly.
Reform of the FDA oncology program is emerging as the immediately tangible element of the Obama administration's moonshot program.
Between the fall of 2011 and the spring of 2012, I watched MD Anderson from afar, and I didn't think about CPRIT at all.
President Barack Obama's Feb. 8 budget request for fiscal year 2017 slates $75 million in additional funding for FDA for the creation of a virtual Oncology Center of Excellence.
President Barack Obama Feb. 8 unveiled his budget proposal for the 2017 fiscal year—a $4.1 trillion spending blueprint that is unlikely to be passed by a Republican-controlled Congress.
The White House announced a $1 billion initiative Feb. 1 to jumpstart the national cancer moonshot program—an ambitious proposal first announced by President Barack Obama during his final State of the Union address.