The Alzheimer's drug LEQEMBI is seen in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on January 20, 2023. Democratic and Republican attorneys general in nearly half of U.S. states are calling on Medicare to provide unrestricted coverage of antibody treatments for Alzheimer's disease, according to a letter released Monday. "We ask that CMS provide unrestricted Medicare coverage for FDA-approved Alzheimer's treatments, consistent with its decades-long practice of covering FDA-approved prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries," the attorneys general, led by Oklahoma's Gentner Drummond, told CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra. More than 70 House lawmakers and 18 senators called on Medicare to provide unrestricted coverage of Alzheimer's treatments in February. The push by members of Congress and state attorneys general comes after Medicare rejected a request by the Alzheimer's Association to cover Leqembi without any conditions.

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