Under current law, Medicare Parts B and D cover anticancer drugs for indications not approved by the FDA only if the drugs are supported by one or more of four authorized compendia. Publishers of these compendia must comply with statutory requirements to maintain transparent processes for evaluating anticancer drug therapies and identifying potential conflicts of interest. In a recent report, the OIG concludes that each of the four authorized compendia publishers complied with these requirements, although the number and nature of disclosures of potential conflicts of interest varied across publishers.
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