Hwang TJ, Venkateswaran S, Cai CL, Krishnan A, Martin MJ, Kesselheim AS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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Summary:
The commenters support GUARD Model’s aim of lowering Medicare Part D prescription drug spending and recommen that CMS narrow the reference country basket, use median pricing for international benchmarks, and aggregate international pricing data across dosage forms and strengths to identify the lowest available price.
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