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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.

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