‘Value-Based’ Price Negotiation: Define Your Terms

The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sees the new price negotiation authority as an opportunity to build ‘a common definition of value.’ That is a worthy goal – and a tall order.

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US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Blum has spent his career engaged in all aspects of federal payment for pharmaceuticals.

He has tackled the issue on Capitol Hill as a key aid to former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) during the Medicare Part D/Medicare Modernization Act legislative debate in the early...

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