HHS Safe Harbor For Value-Based Drug Contracts May Be On Horizon
Executive Summary
US proposed rule establishing new safe harbors from anti-kickback rules for value-based and outcomes-based contracts limits protections to clinicians, providers and certain other groups and expressly excludes pharmaceutical manufacturers. But HHS suggests a separate safe harbor for prescription drug contracts may be forthcoming.
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