A large life sciences manufacturer anticipated that some of its products may be selected for drug price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It sought to create an evidence strategy to articulate the value of its products during negotiations and thus needed to predict how CMS might weigh evidence and evaluate results. We helped the client anticipate CMS’s approach to evaluating evidence packages for products during the negotiation process, and develop strategies to strengthen those packages, to ensure that negotiated maximum fair prices (MFPs) accurately reflect the value of the client’s products.
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