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AARP Calls on Congress to Protect Medicare Drug Price Negotiation
Currently, Medicare has to wait seven years after a traditional drug gets approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
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Medicare Drug Price Negotiations: All You Need to Know
Under the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, the HHS secretary negotiates directly with manufacturers on the prices Medicare will pay for pharmaceuticals.
Health Affairs7d
Administration Releases Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program Draft Guidance For 2028
The new guidance builds on previous years’ by increasing the focus on transparency and expanding, per statute, to include ...
US Medicare lays out timeline for third round of drug price negotiations
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Monday that it would announce a list of 15 drugs eligible ...
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With the third round of Medicare price negotiations on the way, here’s how the policy is shifting
Medicare’s drug price negotiation program is progressing into its third round of selections, HHS announced last week. And as the Biden-era program moves full steam ahead, changes are in store ...
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Big Pharma Front Groups Muddle Debate Over Drug Prices, Patient Advocates Say
Big Pharma is using dark money to fund groups that sound like patient advocacy organizations but represent the industry.
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In Price Negotiations, Medicare Should Reassess How It Determines A ‘Qualifying Single Source Drug’
Conflicting QSSD definitions from two federal agencies mean that CMS’ administrative authority on drug pricing and payment is ...
Trump’s Plan to Cap Drug Prices Doesn’t Exist
The president announced last week that his administration would be instituting a “most favored nation” policy that would peg ...
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The long road to lower drug prices
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aiming to significantly reduce prescription drug prices in the United ...
Healthy Returns: Trump provides a glimpse of the third round of Medicare drug price negotiations
The Trump administration is already gearing up for another round of Medicare drug price negotiations, while OpenAI launched a ...
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Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program: The Inflation Reduction Act “Pill Penalty” and Other IRA Reforms on the Horizon for 2026
When Congress adopted the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, creating the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (MDPNP), the bill did ...
Trump signs drug price executive order. What does it say?
The executive order directs Trump's administration to take actions against "discriminatory" policies in foreign countries ...