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Thinking Outside The Box On Rx Pricing: From Vaccines To Part D Bundling

 
• By Kate Rawson

Former FDA Deputy Commissioner suggest Vaccine-For-Children model for high value drug purchasing programs during Johns Hopkins drug pricing conference. Bundled payments in Part D is another option put on the table. Medicare head Cavanaugh explains why that option is much harder to accomplish.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is making waves with some new ideas for paying for physician-administered drugs under Medicare Part B.

The proposal offers several ideas for strategies to implement value-based pricing in Part B – though the actual, immediate first step would simply test an alternative formula for the existing...

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