Becker's Healthcare July 1, 2024
Payers are “crucial allies” in improving data gathered from clinical trials, researchers at the FDA and Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania wrote in a special communication published in JAMA July 1.
Closer collaboration between payers and researchers could result in better coverage policies and cost savings for payers and in more data for researchers, according to the FDA.
“Evidence generation serves payers’ most important mission — to improve their beneficiaries’ health,” the researchers wrote. “Although payers mainly accomplish this task through coverage of health care services and medical products,...