Opinion|Videos|July 9, 2024

Typical Payer Coverage Criteria for Multiple Sclerosis Therapies

Heidi Crayton, MD, discusses the typical coverage criteria requirements she encounters from payers for currently-approved therapies for multiple sclerosis.

Video content above is prompted by the following questions:

  • What typical coverage criteria requirements are you seeing from payers with currently-approved therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS)?
  • Do you see benefit of ICD-10 coding by different MS phenotypes vs. having only one code?

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