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Value-Based Payment Experiments For Drugs To Be Key Focus For CMMI, Director Says

 
• By Cathy Kelly

Recently-installed Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Chief Adam Boehler says payment lab will play a role in the Administration’s overall approach to lowering prescription drug costs.

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The new director of the US Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is renewing the unit's commitment to experimenting with reimbursement designs for pharmaceuticals.

CMMI “is a very good place to test value-based models” for prescription drugs, Director Adam Boehler said

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