Payment Innovations Finally Catching up to Medical Breakthroughs
This week, the FDA approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ ONPATTRO™ (patisiran), an innovative RNA interference (RNAi) therapy to treat...
Trouble for Bundled Payments? Probably Not
Skeptics of bundled payments, even if they are not proponents of line-item payments, scored a victory last week with the publication of a...
The big thing: somebody needs to pay
The first or second question anyone asks during a social event, or on the sidelines of a middle school soccer game, is what I do for a...
Digital health a leader, except for reimbursement strategy
Let's discuss payers reimbursing for digital health applications
How high a price for a cure
Citizens, watchdogs, and legislators again are homing in on drug developers and marketers for their high-priced products. As trade...
I thought it was a misprint
Maryland’s Senate Finance Committee is considering bringing the “Expensive Drugs” bill (SB 437) to the floor for deliberation and a vote....
Medicare Part B Drug Rule - Explainer 2 for Phase 2
In my last (and first) blog, I talked about the concepts that CMS would like to test in Phase I of its proposed rule on Part B Drugs....
Explainer (#1) of the Part B Drug Rule - Now that it's been out a while
There’s no better time or way to jump into Blogworld than to postulate on a topic of great interest to the industry and one that I know a...









