The New Part D: "Dollars for Donuts" Becomes Discounts For Data
• By Michael McCaughan
The pharmaceutical industry's 50% donut hole discount worked out exactly as planned in the context of shaping the health care reform debate. The implementation of the new program is a different story. The program created by CMS doesn't look anything like industry would have hoped-but manufacturers have no choice but to play by CMS' rules, and try to make it work for them anyway.
Michael McCaughan
"You are new players for us," Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official Sandra Anderson told manufacturers during a June...
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