BMT clinical trials for Medicare Advantage plans

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We’re seeing more & more Medicare patients, and a portion of them have signed on to Medicare Advantage plans. If we want to transplant them on a clinical trial, that’s usually carved out and falls to straight Medicare. The problem we’re facing is that these patients don’t have Medicare supplements, so they face responsibility for the part B 20% copayment, along with deductibles, etc. It’s prevented a significant number of patients from enrolling in our trials. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Any cases where a Senior Advantage plan agreed to cover a clinical trial, or pay secondary to Medicare for clinical trial care? GoldsteinBusiness Manager, Stanford BMT Program300 Pasteur Drive, H0101Stanford, CA 94305~ - direct~650.725-3117 - fax~ - BMT office ***This email and any attachments may contain confidential information for the use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its content is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify Stanford University Medical Center at . ~Thank You.***