At the New York Times, August 7, 2025, see Vogel, Kliff, and Thomas for their review of lobbying and health policy for new technologies in the current administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-medicare-bandages-donors.html
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While the article focuses on a delay in a skin substitutes price cut (linking to an LCD pushed forward to 1/1/2026), it eventually includes the important facts that:
- The [skin substitute] industry was caught off guard in July.
- The Trump administration changed course and proposed a new plan that would lower skin substitute reimbursements to a flat fee of $806 per square inch, a small fraction of what some companies currently earn.
- The proposal could go into effect next year if it is finalized.
Delay LCD to 2026
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While NYT writes about political dollars and skin grafts, WSJ has an article on "millions of dollars" in donations to encourage DEA re-classification of marijuana. Also at Medpage in more detail.
