Rx Pricing: Adversaries Search For Common Ground On Value-Based Contracts

Celgene, Express Scripts, and Aetna discuss need for shared accountability, data sharing and value assessment at DIA meeting.

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Adversaries in the debate over Rx drug pricing called a truce in discussing value-based payments. But they voiced the usual themes of the need for shared accountability and transparency in pricing decisions.

Speaking on a panel at the Drug Information Association's annual meeting in Chicago June 20, Aetna Inc. VP and...

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