AWP leaves, AAC arrives; can it really do the job?

Carroll, J.

Managed Care 21(3): 6-7

2012


ISSN/ISBN: 1062-3388
PMID: 22474698
Document Number: 10675
A little more than a year ago, 45 states based their Medicaid drug payments on a common benchmark: an estimated acquisition cost based on the average wholesale price (AWP) of the therapeutic. And 37 of those states got their AWP numbers from First Databank - which shuttered the controversial effort on Sept. 26, 2011.

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AWP leaves, AAC arrives; can it really do the job?