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Medicaid Outcomes-Based Payment Model For Cell, Gene Therapy to Launch In 2025

 
• By Cathy Kelly

But CMMI does not yet have a launch date for the proposed Medicare demonstration on drugs cleared through FDA’s accelerated approval pathway and the demonstration allowing Part D plans to offer certain high-value generics with a $2 beneficiary copay.

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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is accelerating the implementation schedule for a payment demonstration testing a multi-state, outcomes-based contracting approach for cell and gene therapies and now expects to begin in 2025 instead of 2026.

Key Takeaways

  • Cost concerns among Medicaid programs is accelerating CMMI’s plans to launch a demonstration involve multi-state outcomes-based contracts for cell and gene therapy.

The demonstration is one of three models for lowering prescription drug costs that CMMI is working on in response to...

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