Various government and private payer initiatives are good steps forward, but lack coordination. Payers continue to face perverse incentives to use high-cost drugs because of rebates in 340B, while providers don’t have enough incentives to use cost-saving clinical decision tools.

Pear Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April and sold its remaining assets in an auction for about $6m. The demise of one the pioneers in the prescription digital therapeutics industry highlights the challenges PDT developers face getting their products reimbursed.