Latest R&D Spending Benchmark Study Puts Cancer Drug Costs At $648M

Drugmakers are not expecting a big financial hit from tariffs for now, but a report commissioned by the industry trade association PhRMA suggests a potentially steep cost for pharma-sector tariffs.

Manufacturers are engaging the European Commission and individual countries to allocate more health care spending to innovative medicines and align prices more closely to those in the US.

Employers and other health plan sponsors may need to push for better targeted reforms that lower cost sharing for patients.

Respondents to a Senate investigation that could re-energize 340B reform efforts said hospitals offer patient assistance programs and use 340B revenue for “capital improvement projects” and “community benefit programs,” though they do not account for specific program revenue allocations.