HCFA Cost Considerations In Proposed Drug Coverage Criteria To Be Revised
Executive Summary
The Health Care Financing Administration plans to eliminate or significantly scale back the role of cost in its proposed criteria for making Medicare drug coverage decisions, the agency indicated after receiving comments on its May 16 notice of intent to publish a proposed rule.
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