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FDA, CMS unveil plan to speed rare disease gene therapy access

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HHS announced an FDA guidance and expanded CMS payment model to help patients with rare genetic diseases.

To expand patient access to high-cost treatments for rare diseases, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a new regulatory framework for individualized gene therapies alongside efforts by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

According to the FDA, the draft guidance, titled Individualized Human Genome Editing

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