If the Senate's bipartisan price reform proposal is enacted into law this year, the drug pricing agenda for the next Administration will likely be set: implementing a host of changes to Medicare Part B, Part D and Medicaid. But if it fails, then more direct price negotiation measures will likely be the new starting point.
It has been a busy week for big ideas on drug price legislation in the US.
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Jonathan Blum, who was principal deputy administrator during the Biden Administration, explained the agency’s approach to setting up the price negotiation program and said changes likely will be implemented by the Trump Administration.
Eli Lilly is seeking an injunction barring a weight loss clinic from dispensing modified versions of its GLP-1 products.
The UK government has listened to industry concerns about high clawback rates under the voluntary scheme and will review it in June in a bid to resolve the issue and “move on to bigger and more important things,” health secretary Wes Streeting says.
A Republican think tank suggested variations of the Most Favored Nation and international reference policies in Medicare and Medicaid, as well as tariffs and other trade levers to rebalance drug pricing disparities between US countries and abroad.
Proposals to reform Spain’s reference pricing system are out of whack with the national pharmaceutical strategy published in December, six industry associations have warned.
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Eli Lilly is seeking an injunction barring a weight loss clinic from dispensing modified versions of its GLP-1 products.
