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AMCP CEO Blog: As a new decade dawns, AMCP is preparing for the twists and turns of an uncertain first year. With health care a top issue in this year’s presidential campaigns, drug pricing a favorite target, and biosimilar use poised to expand, seeing where this year will lead requires much more than “2020” vision.
This JMCP study compares pay-for-success and pay-for-failure models to identify the short- and long-term incentives for each that manufacturer and payer should when developing value-based contracts. More research is needed on the effect of different types of value-based contract schemes on cost and clinical outcome.
AMCP has released Version 4.1 of the AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions, which includes two new dossier types for biopharmaceutical manufacturers to share evidence on unapproved products and new indications that are under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) thanks the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the opportunity to provide written comments regarding the new proposed rulemaking on “Medicare and State Healthcare Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Revisions to Safe Harbors Under the Anti-Kickback Statute, and Civil Monetary Penalty Rules Regarding Beneficiary Inducements” published in the Federal Register on October 17, 2019.
Although interest in value assessment frameworks is relatively widespread among payers, significant challenges to operationalizing them exist within the U.S. healthcare system. Those challenges--which include existing policies and a lack of standardized definitions--restrict the ability to make favorable contracts.