Ensuring that physicians and other providers can provide access to the most appropriate course of treatment in the preferred setting for each patient is critical. This can be achieved through reimbursement that fully recognizes the value of these therapies and the associated care and services required for their delivery.
Each therapy in the transformative medicines space will have individualized applications and require unique clinical circumstances, even though they may have similarities in mechanism of action or route of administration. Patients will be treated across varying healthcare settings with differing associated care needs by specialized providers with significant experiences and expertise in providing transformative therapies. The reimbursement system should ensure appropriate reimbursement for these therapies and that providers have the ability to provide these groundbreaking therapies through adequate reimbursement for the associated care they deliver. Novel payment approaches should be considered to help facilitate patient access to continued innovations in care and treatment.
The current coverage and reimbursement system is not structured in the most efficient and effective way to ensure timely patient access of these transformative therapies. As more of these therapies come to market, it will be critical for existing coding and reimbursement pathways and timelines to be adequately flexible to provide timely coverage and access of these therapies for patients that need them.
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