Implementation Brief: Is innovative contracting right for you?

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

Innovative contracts can offer significant benefits for stakeholders delivering novel drugs and medical products to patients — but they require resources to design and implement. This Implementation Brief outlines key … Read More

Implementation Brief: Innovative contracting 101

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

This brief provides an introduction to innovative contracts, or value-based contracts, which may be used to facilitate access to innovative, high-cost treatments. These contracts can address uncertainty around treatments and … Read More

Implementation Brief: Access considerations for innovative treatments

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

This brief offers a checklist of key steps that different stakeholders should consider to ensure patients have access to innovative treatments. These therapies present unique challenges for different stakeholders and … Read More

Implementation Brief: Key terms for payment innovation

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

This brief provides definitions of key terms that are often used in discussions about designing and implementing innovative payment solutions. It offers an overview of solution models, types of risk, … Read More

Implementation Brief: Considerations for developers in applying the Multiple Best Price (MBP) rule to improve access to novel therapies

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

This brief highlights some key steps and considerations for biopharmaceutical developers of novel, high-value therapies seeking to successfully implement CMS’s Multiple Best Price rule. The rule, which went into effect … Read More

Implementation Brief: Understanding access issues for new therapies

Eric NormanFoCUS, Implementation Briefs

Our first implementation brief outlines several major barriers to patient access for novel cell and gene therapies. It also describes how providers, payers, and developers may overcome these barriers, with … Read More