Federal regulators will move ahead with a national test of Medicare coverage for a YMCA diabetes prevention program over the objections of the pharmaceutical industry, which sells drugs including increasingly expensive insulin to treat disease.
The final rule, announced Wednesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is designed to speed Medicare coverage of a program to combat a disease that a quarter of people 65 and older have. National trade associations representing hospitals and doctors enthusiastically supported CMS' plan in comments filed with the agency.
