# OnCo record idea-cost-trial-enrolment-cost-lever (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-cost-trial-enrolment-cost-lever/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-cost-trial-enrolment-cost-lever" ;
  schema:name "Treat trial enrolment as a cost lever: the sponsor pays for the drug"@en ;
  schema:description "In a clinical trial the experimental drug is free to the patient and the payer, and since 2022 Medicaid must cover routine trial costs like Medicare and private plans do; pointing more patients to trials lowers bills as well as advancing science."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-cost-trial-enrolment-cost-lever/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-guidance/downloads/cib122921.pdf>, <https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/clinical-research-studies> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/ai-trial-matching/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-trial-enrolment/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-drug-pricing/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-trial-diversity/> .