EXACT SCIENCES Corp. said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued an updated Evidence of Coverage notice for Medicare Advantage plans that affirms such plans must include coverage of Cologuard every three years without patient coinsurance, copayments or deductibles. “The CMS update assures patients and physicians that Cologuard is covered by Medicare Advantage plans...
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
