Sticker Shock: The Debate Over Making Part D Pricing Data Public

A Congressional committee is sifting through drug rebate data from 12 big Medicare Part D plans. According to Congress' accounting arm, making the data public will cost the government as much as $10 billion dollars. But industry better be nervous about what happens next.

By Michael McCaughan

The House Government Oversight and Government Reform Committee is sifting through some very valuable data—information about prescritpion drug prices under...

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