A survey finds that most health plans would like to pay for many of the highest-priced medicines based on patient outcomes. The findings suggest that insurers hope to get tougher with drug makers as prescription medicines, by some estimates, account for more than one-fifth of overall health care costs.
Specifically, the survey found that 63 percent of health plans had strong interest in outcomes-based contracts for hepatitis C treatments, according to Avalere Health, a consulting firm that last year queried 42 US health plans representing 161 million insured people.
