Medical Update: FDA Approves Clarithromycin for Treatment of MAC

Medical Update: FDA Approves Clarithromycin for Treatment of MAC

Being Alive; March 1994
Mark Katz, MD and reported by Jim Stoecker

For the last couple of years, clarithromycin has been widely used as one of the drugs in the regimen to treat MAC. The FDA, however, had only approved the drug as treatment for community-acquired pneumonia. This caused insurance reimbursement problems for some people taking clarithromycin as MAC therapy. Now, the FDA has announced approval of clarithromycin as a part of the regimen to fight MAC, and this should ease reimbursement issues.

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