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IMPLEMENTATION BRIEF
Understanding access issues for new therapies
This brief outlines several major barriers to patient access for novel cell and gene therapies. It also describes how providers, payers, and developers may overcome these barriers, with a focus on addressing these challenges for the new sickle cell disease (SCD) therapies, Casgevy and Lyfgenia.
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