BrainsWay Ltd. announced that a major private insurance company in Washington state will extend positive coverage applicable to Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Deep TMS™) for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as of February 3, 2023. This policy extension provides coverage of Deep TMS for OCD to approximately 2.2 million members. The policy change also reduces major depressive disorder (MDD) TMS coverage criteria from four failed medication trials to only three.

OCD coverage criteria is also three failed medication trials. BrainsWay continues to focus on informing and providing payers with its growing body of published clinical and real-world evidence to facilitate up-to-date evidence-based coverage determinations. In 2021, only 52.6 million U.S. lives were covered for OCD treatment with TMS. Last year, insurers such as Cigna, Highmark BCBS, and Palmetto GBA Medicare extended coverage, increasing the total covered lives to 90.5 million.