VNS; Senate Finance Committee's report

[Birdbomb]

The Senate Finance Committee's report has been completed and Sen. Grassley has published his concerns.

http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpre...6%20report.pdf

It is available in pdf so you must have Adobe reader to view the entire 360 pages.

http://www.adobe.com/

This article pretty much sums up the report.

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[Bernard]

What is the likely result of Sen. Grassley's investigation? A denial of coverage for VNS (for TRD) from the medicare/medicade programs?

[Birdbomb]

I'm not sure, but there may be far reaching reprocussions. It's more about the way the FDA handled the process. If a drug had this kind of low effective rate and number of side effects, it would never be allowed on the market. Medical devises use a different standard. There are inconsistencies.