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Urgent Opposition Raised Against Proposed Policy Change on PRIALT Coverage

Carter Struck

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Hawthorne Oncology Pain Experts has issued a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, expressing strong opposition to a proposed change in the Calendar Year 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The change threatens to eliminate Medicare Part B coverage for certain medications, including PRIALT (ziconotide), the only FDA-approved non-opioid intrathecal therapy for chronic severe pain, from manufacturers that do not participate i . . .

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