Arizona lawmakers urge Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to act on cell therapy classification

Arizona’s U.S. House members Tom O’Halleran (D), Ann Kirkpatrick (D), and David Schweikert (R) were among the bipartisan group of more than 70 members of the U.S. House of Representatives to urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to create a unique payment code for chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell (CAR T-cell) immune therapy for cancer patients.