Although it held off on a proposed rule change addressing yet another gaming opportunity for drug manufacturers in the U.S., the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) still is pressing its policy for including more 505(b)(2) drugs in multiple source reimbursement codes, which could force them to compete with generics on price.
As expected, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) interim final rule to implement a seven-year most favored nation (MFN) Medicare payment model for 50 drugs crashed into the brick wall of a U.S. court.
If a new federal rule withstands politics and potential court challenges, U.S. health care prices may finally be freed from their historic black box. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with the Departments of Labor and the Treasury, issued the Transparency in Coverage final rule Oct. 29 requiring most private health plans to disclose pricing and cost-sharing information so Americans will know in advance how much they will have to pay for prescription drugs, medical devices and other health care products and services.
After 30 years of following the same rules to ensure Medicaid receives the lowest price available for prescription drugs, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is starting to adapt those rules for the 21st century.
