State Insurance Regulations Regarding Benefit Design (Deductible and Co-Pay Waivers)

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

FoCUS has identified an issue that may be a barrier to timely patient access to durable therapies. The advent of expensive, one-time durable therapies will require changes in private payer … Read More

Incorporation of Value-Based Payment Agreements into the Calculation of Medicaid Drug Rebates

Eric NormanFoCUS, Research Briefs

Value-Based Payment (VBP) agreements will play an important role in mitigating uncertainty in durable therapies, where it is unclear whether a large upfront payment is justified based on limited clinical … 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

Drug Safety Futures 2020

Eric NormanWhitepapers

Healthcare reforms currently unfolding in the United States are driving the marketplace toward a more value-based system designed to optimize health outcomes per dollar expended. Such a system has major … Read More