Scant Details, Comment Period for VBP Proposal Draw Concern

A new proposed rule (85 Fed. Reg. 37286, June 19, 2020), which CMS touted as a way to tweak Medicaid’s best-price provision to encourage more value-based purchasing (VBP) for expensive drugs, has drawn considerable criticism from stakeholders across the health care system. Experts say the rule is much more complex than it was initially made to seem, and the 30-day comment period is unusually short for such a substantial change.

“Generally, stakeholders across the board have voiced concerns with the short comment period,” Lindsay Bealor Greenleaf tells AIS Health. Greenleaf is vice president for policy at ADVI Health LLC, a health care consultancy. “There are a lot of complex proposals included in this rule that take time to unpack, to really analyze.”

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Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson

Peter has been a reporter for nearly a decade. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered a wide variety of topics in his hometown of Seattle, where he continues to live. Peter’s work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic and The Stranger. Peter attended Colby College.

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