Lack of health benefits data means provisional non-coverage for Johnson & Johnson 's Charite
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
US Medicare officials have tentatively decided not to cover Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) lumbar artificial disc, Charite, because of inadequate information about patient outcomes. In a proposed national non-coverage determination released yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said that "important questions" have yet to be answered about patient selection, adverse events, long-term outcomes and how Medicare's elderly patient population might fare with the device.