‘Clean Slate’ For Rebate Policy? US MedPAC Getting To Work

That sound you hear is the staff of the US Medicare Payment Advisory Commission digging into new sources of data about the impact of rebates on the Part D outpatient drug benefit. Expect new policy ideas to follow – though not right away.

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Expect to hear some new ideas about how to change the policies covering rebates in the US Medicare Part D program now that the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission staff has access to plan level rebate data in the outpatient drug program.

Thanks to a change enacted as part of the year-end budget deal, MedPAC will be able to dig much more deeply into the inner workings of rebates in Part D....

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