From 2006 to 2009, over 800,000 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries continuously enrolled in Parts A and B had a claim for an anticancer biologic of interest.
Bevacizumab was the most frequently used anticancer monoclonal antibody and its use doubled from 2006 to 2009.
In 2009, the total Medicare reimbursement for all anticancer monoclonal antibodies billed for in Medicare Part B noninstitutional and institutional outpatient settings exceeded $2 billion.