Italy Leads European Push Into Conditional Reimbursement
• By Andrew Shelton
Italy claims to have pushed farther into managed entry agreements than other European countries with strong clawback provisions on new drugs – particularly cancer drugs – if they don't work as well as their manufacturers claim. The financial clawbacks are supported by extensive outcome data collection across the country's twenty regions.
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