Senate Drug Pricing Bill: Even Worse Than The House Version

US Senate’s updated version of drug pricing legislation is even worse for industry when it comes to the proposed price ‘negotiation’ authority, a Congressional Budget Office analysis indicates. The big numbers facing the industry just keep getting bigger.

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The US Congressional Budget Office’s bottom line on the Senate version of drug pricing legislation might lead you to believe that it is a bit better for the drug industry than the version that already passed the House in 2021.

The Senate language is part of a last-ditch effort to salvage some portion of the “Build Back Better” bill that passed the House last year

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