{"id":23762,"date":"2019-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/08\/medicare-to-cover-car-t-therapy-for-leukemia-lymphoma\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:06:55","slug":"medicare-to-cover-car-t-therapy-for-leukemia-lymphoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/08\/medicare-to-cover-car-t-therapy-for-leukemia-lymphoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare to Cover CAR-T Therapy for Leukemia, Lymphoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy boosts a patient&#8217;s own immune cells<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A breakthrough gene therapy will be covered for certain types of lymphoma and leukemia, Medicare says.<\/p>\n<p>Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy boosts a patient&#8217;s own immune cells to fight cancer and can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown that CAR-T is effective against certain types of cancers, but can cause severe side effects. The use of the gene therapy to treat certain types of leukemia and lymphoma is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Medicare considered the matter for months before it announced its decision on Wednesday. The agency&#8217;s policies on coverage can influence private insurance, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/0ceb2ca008c2413f8b7690b3683f0200\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy boosts a patient&#8217;s own immune cells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-23762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}