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    Academic Literature
    What A Waste! The National Academy Of Medicine’s Report On Oversized Vials Of Expensive Drugs
    Why Congress should not follow the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s recommendation to remove the JW modifier.
    Health Affairs Blog 07/09/2021
    Academic Literature
    Value-Based Management of Specialty Drugs: Practical Considerations and Implications for Pharmacy
    Not all approaches are suited to meeting policy makers and health plans’ goals of managing specialty drugs based on their value. Researchers conducted a qualitative study with Blue Cross Blue Shield plans interested in implementing value-based specialty pharmacy management to observe the plans’ objectives, strategies, and factors influencing their ability to execute on these strategies.
    AJMC 05/13/2021
    Academic Literature
    CMS's Proposed Medicaid Best Price Loophole for Value-Based Purchasing of Drugs
    The administration has proposed a loophole in the Medicaid Best Price rules that would dismiss linking the drug's effectiveness to its price.
    HA Blog 07/06/2020
    Academic Literature
    Priceless Knowledge: Attitudes and Awareness Around Drug Pricing Among US Medical Students
    Medical students' education covers topics spanning health, disease, and treatment, but what about drug pricing and their role as prescribers?
    Medical Science Educator 01/13/2021
    Academic Literature
    Who Is Sowing Seeds of Confusion About The QALY?
    Industry sponsorship of patient advocacy groups opposing the QALY threatens to undermine not just the QALY but also an objective analysis of policy decisions.
    Health Affairs 07/24/2020
    Academic Literature
    Pharmaceutical Products and Their Value: Lessons Learned and the Path Ahead
    Value-based pricing has emerged as an alternative to prices determined by what the market will bear. But which agreements are truly "value-based"?
    Value in Health 03/29/2021
    Academic Literature
    US Drug Prices And R&D, Take 2: A Reply To Grabowski And Manning, And To Light
    To answer Health Affairs responses, Peter Bach and Nancy Yu point back to the research, emphasizing the original intent of the conservative R&D cost assumptions.
    Health Affairs Blog 07/27/2017
    Academic Literature
    Prevalence of Off-Label Use and Spending Among Patent-Protected Chemotherapies
    The prevalence of off-label anticancer drug use is not well characterized.
    JCO 02/19/2013
    Academic Literature
    Pharmaceutical Products and Their Value
    Steep increases in prices and spending on prescription drugs in the United States have triggered public outrage and questions about their value.
    Value in Health 03/29/2020
    Academic Literature
    Understanding the Rewards of Successful Drug Development: Thinking Inside the Box
    The ability to charge high prices is only one component of a complex system of risks and rewards that underlies pharmaceutical innovation.
    NEJM 01/30/2020
    Academic Literature
    Medicare Negotiation: A "Too Little" or "Too Late" Framework for Drug Selection
    Recent draft pieces of legislation and regulation take aim at the rising cost of drugs, targeting drugs that claim the largest share of the health care budget and that face limited competition from generics or biosimilars.
    NEJM 11/28/2019
    Academic Literature
    Abandon Biosimilars as Biologics are Natural Monopolies
    Biosimilars will not effectively lower the price of biologic drugs after the period of market exclusivity.
    HA Blog 04/15/2019
    Academic Literature
    List Price, Net Price, and the Rebate Caught in the Middle
    Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), such as Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and Optum Rx, are some of the larger companies that administer the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit.
    JAMA Viewpoint 03/06/2019
    Academic Literature
    Expansion of the Medicare 340B Payment Program
    As the 340B program expands, it continues to draw national attention.
    JAMA Viewpoint 12/11/2018
    Academic Literature
    The "Netflix Model" of Financing Hepatitis C Treatment
    An alternative payment model is proposed to support a population-level payment paradigm.
    JAMA Viewpoint 11/20/2018
    Academic Literature
    Cardiovascular Drugs Not Price Aligned with Value in US
    U.S. prices of common cardiovascular drugs are not consistent with the cost-effectiveness evidence.
    Health Affairs 08/01/2018
    Academic Literature
    Perspective on National Coverage Analysis of CAR-T Therapies
    Potential strategies for CMS's evaluation of coverage and payment for the various CAR-T therapies are laid out.
    NEJM 10/11/2018
    Academic Literature
    Spending On Prescription Drugs In The US: Where Does All The Money Go?
    Supply chain intermediaries, or “middlemen,” are being blamed for capturing much of the money that is often categorized as drug spending.
    HA Blog 07/31/2018
    Academic Literature
    Money-Back Guarantees for Expensive Drugs: Wolf's Clothing but a Sheep Underneath
    Pharmaceutical manufacturers push for adoption of outcomes-based contracting as a means of achieving a value-based price, but such contracts are ill-suited to do so.
    Annals of Internal Medicine 06/19/2018
    Academic Literature
    Association of Rebates in Part D with Patient OOP and Federal Spending
    The way Medicare Part D's benefit design shows that rebates actually increase patients' out-of-pocket costs while shifting spending from plan sponsors and manufacturers to Medicare.
    JAMA Internal Medicine 05/30/2017
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