Approaches To Value-Based Drug Cost-Sharing Offered In NPC Report
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
National Pharmaceutical Council and the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design propose applying value-based insurance design principles to help reduce cost-sharing for specialty drugs in a report presented at an Institute of Medicine workshop on patient access to cancer drugs.
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