The Friends of the National Quality Forum (NQF) strongly urge you to support continuing the currently authorized $30 million in annual Medicare funding for NQF and quality and performance measurement. NQF’s work is vital to advancing our national commitment to safer, more effective care.
The undersigned organizations commend you for your leadership in introducing H.R. 2026 – The Pharmaceutical Information Exchange (PIE) Act of 2017 which will improve patient access to emerging medication therapies and devices by codifying a safe harbor for certain health care economic and scientific information communications between biopharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and population health decision makers.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) thanks the Institute of Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) for the opportunity to provide comments on the draft evidence report titled “Abuse Deterrent Formulations (ADFs) of Opioids: Effectiveness and Value” released on May 5, 2017.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is writing to express concerns with specific provisions of Senate Bill 4788 regarding the regulation of biological products and the substitution of interchangeable biological products when dispensed by pharmacists.
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is writing to express concerns with specific provisions of House Bill 4472 regarding the regulation of biological products and the substitution of interchangeable biological products when dispensed by pharmacists. We strongly support the language in the Bill that allows a pharmacist to substitute an FDA approved “interchangeable biological product.”
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) thanks the International Society for Pharmacoeonomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) for the opportunity to comment on the Draft Special Task Force Report “A Health Economics Approach to US Value Assessment Frameworks” issued on May 4, 2017 as part of its Initiative on US Value Assessment Frameworks.
AMCP supports the implementation of a robust biosimilars pathway to ensure that Americans continue to receive access to safe, effective, and affordable biologics and biosimilars. AMCP has been working extensively with the Food and Drug Administration and other stakeholders on federal and state legislation and regulations that impact the biosimilars pathway.