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State-Mandated Reimbursement for Cancer Trial Participation
An often-cited barrier to enrollment in cancer clinical trials is payer
reimbursement. Gross et al. (p.
1063) examined if state mandates ensuring coverage of routine medical
care costs of cancer trial participants increased patient enrollment rates for
National Cancer Institutesponsored phase II and cooperative group phase
III trials between 1996 and 2001. They compared enrollment of participants in
four states that had enacted coverage policies in 1999 with enrollment in
states without policies. After the state mandates were enacted in 1999, the
authors found that phase II trial enrollment increased at a greater rate
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