A government rule limiting access to Alzheimer’s drugs means most patients who would want newly approved Leqembi won’t be able to get it—unless the Medicare agency rewrites the rule
newly approved Alzheimer’sThe Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Eisai Co. and Biogen Inc.’s Leqembi, known generically as lecanemab,
for the treatment of people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, the vast majority of whom are insured by Medicare. However, for the drug unless patients are enrolled in government-sanctioned clinical trials, and no such studies are ongoing or planned.
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