Celularity CEO comments on Medicare skin substitute rule withdrawal

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Celularity CEO Comments on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Withdrawal of Skin Substitute Local Coverage Determinations

December 26, 2025 8:30 AM EST

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Dec. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celularity Inc. (Nasdaq: CELU) (Celularity), a regenerative and cellular medicine company addressing age-related and degenerative diseases, today released comments by Robert J. Hariri, M.D., Ph.D., CEO and Chairman, on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recent withdrawal of skin substitute Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) that were set to go into effect on January 1, 2026.

On December 24, 2025, CMS announced that effective immediately, A/B Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) were withdrawing the LCDs for Skin Substitute Grafts/Cellular and Tissue-Based... More