Under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin negotiating drug prices for a subset of drugs in Medicare. In doing so, CMS must ...
We all know that policymakers are increasingly focused on lowering drug costs. From the Inflation Reductions Act's Medicare price negotiations (aka price controls) to the recent proposals directed at ...
Medicare’s drug price negotiation program violates the Constitution and must be struck down, Novartis Pharmaceuticals said in ...
In terms of therapeutic breakthroughs, Isasi suggested that the drug price negotiation program’s current structure is an effective deterrent from drugmakers’ low-impact profit chasing. “In ...
Wisconsin Public Radio This year, Medicare will start negotiating lower prescription drug prices. But one Wisconsin insurance broker ...
Joe Biden has made it less likely that we’ll find a cure for Alzheimer’s any time soon. That’s a consequence of his ordering Medicare to “negotiate” with pharmaceutical firms over the ...
Two health secretaries from the Trump and Biden administrations agree that bringing down high drug costs is a critical priority to make healthcare more affordable for patients. But they have far ...
A seven-figure, yearlong PhRMA ad campaign has taken a very wonky policy debate mainstream — and it's made a longtime actor a ...
Health care analyst Ellen Andrews, Ph.d, says we have arrived at an historic moment. Pharma has been fighting Medicare drug price negotiation for decades because it’s the start of reining in their ...
As consumers struggle with soaring drug prices, AstraZeneca Q3 profits doubled to $1.37 billion. The pharmaceutical industry is enjoying record profits while simultaneously pursuing lawsuits ...
There might just be a silver lining for Johnson & Johnson in the FDA's recent approval of Amgen’s Stelara biosimilar. That’s because the coming entry of a cheaper copycat presents J&J with an ...
TAMING HEALTH CARE ‘MIDDLEMEN’ — The Biden administration wants to cap the amount insurers can pay Medicare Advantage brokers and agents per enrollee, POLITICO’s Robert King reports.