Medicare Price ‘Negotiation’ Process Could Enable National Value Framework – CMS’ Blum
Executive Summary
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief operating officer Jonathan Blum discusses implementation of an unprecedented new price setting program and how it might impact value-based pricing more broadly in a recent interview with Health Affairs.
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