State payer mandates to cover cancer trials offer heterogeneous protection for patients
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
A 2001 federal law mandates care for Medicare-eligible patients enrolled in clinical trials; however, only 25 state laws cover clinical-trial related medical costs for non-Medicare patients, and these offer less protection than the federal law. A lawyer explains these findings in a special article published online March 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.