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US Outcomes-Based Contracts In Oncology? CAR-T Could Be Case Study

 
• By Cathy Kelly

Groundbreaking but potentially very expensive new CAR-T treatments for cancer could be suited to outcomes-based contracts, Harvard Pilgrim's Sherman suggests.

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The emerging chimeric antigen-receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies for cancer could provide a "case study" in why and how payers engage in outcomes-based contracts for oncology treatments, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Chief Medical Officer Michael Sherman suggested during the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research annual meeting in Boston May 22.

"Oncology offers a lot of opportunity" for outcomes-based contracting, Sherman maintained. However, "pharmaceutical companies have not felt the need to...

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