CMS Will Soon Ask For Proposals From Vendors To Buy Part B Drugs For Doctors

CMS will soon request proposals from third parties to buy drugs on behalf of physicians, which is a defunct program HHS is reviving for the first time since it failed more than a decade ago. The Competitive Acquisition Program is part of the president’s plan to lower drug prices. The Obama administration also considered bringing the program back in its ill-fated Part B demonstration, and congressional Medicare advisers recommended a tweaked version of the approach. “In short order, we will...