Getting breakthrough coverage right: Rep. Griffith’s critical role

Getting breakthrough coverage right: Rep. Griffith’s critical role

Virginia finds itself at the center of an important health care debate, and Southwest Virginia’s own U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, is in the driver’s seat as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. Rep. Morgan Griffith. Here’s the problem: Medicare beneficiaries can wait years — sometimes averaging half a decade — between when the FDA greenlights breakthrough medical technologies and when Medicare actually covers th…