Impact of Patient Mobility on Annuity/Performance-Based Contracting

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

Spreading payments over time for durable or curative therapies can provide a better alignment between benefits and costs, but creates challenges when patients switch insurance coverage during the contract term. … Read More

Orphan Reinsurer Benefit Managers (ORBMs)

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

An Orphan Reinsurer Benefit Manager (ORBM) could address the financial challenges (payment timing, therapeutic performance risk, actuarial risk), created by durable/potentially curable gene and cell therapies especially for smaller insurers … Read More

Impact of Actuarial Risk on Health Plans

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

The uncertain number of patients likely to be treated with an expensive novel therapy (actuarial risk) could represent a major financial issue for some payers. In this brief, we will … Read More

Designing Precision Financing for Cures

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

Designing Precision Financing for cures can be informed by a framework that tailors solutions to the three financing challenges of actuarial risk, performance risk and payment timing based on the … Read More

Payers Open to Innovative Financing Mechanisms for High Cost Gene Therapies

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

In a broad survey, payers favor performance based milestone contracts and risk pools strategies to absorb the surge of high cost gene therapy products expected to enter the market over … Read More