Press Release: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a much anticipated proposed rule titled “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan, Medicare Fee-for-Service, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs, and the PACE Program.”
On November 16th, 2017, CMS released a much anticipated proposed rule that amends regulations for Medicare Part C and Medicare Part D to implement provisions of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) and the 21st Century Cures Act. The proposed rule also makes changes to improve program quality, accessibility, and affordability and also adopts the updated NCPDP script standard for electronic prescribing.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s (AMCP) has released a consensus document on value-based contracting that includes a key stakeholder definition of VBC along with strategies to implement the innovative payment model.