CMS Wants To Facilitate Value-Based Discounts For HCV Drugs In Medicaid

CMS requests information from hepatitis C manufacturers on how value-based purchasing arrangements might work in Medicaid. Agency also urges state Medicaid directors to relax overly strict coverage requirements for the drugs.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is requesting information from manufacturers of high-cost hepatitis C drugs on the value-based purchasing arrangements they have with payers so it can facilitate use of such arrangements in Medicaid.

In a Nov. 5 letter sent to Gilead Sciences Inc., AbbVie Inc., Johnson & Johnson...

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