Manatt Health October 31, 2023
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has provided new updates on CMS’ planned initiatives to address prescription drug costs in a blog post from Director Liz Fowler. One test, the Accelerating Clinical Evidence Model, appears to have stalled, while progress continues on other projects.
The post came on the one-year anniversary of Executive Order 14087 in which President Joe Biden ordered Secretary Xavier Becerra to consider selecting Innovation Center models for testing focused on lowering drug costs and increasing access. That order in turn led to a January 2023 report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) selecting three models for testing and announcing next steps for their development and design. The blog post describes the...