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Supplemental Filings: House GOP Tries to Ban FDA Pride Flag; Amyloid PET NCD Updates Soon

 
• By Pink Sheet Team

As the FDA flies the Progressive Pride Flag in honor of Pride Month, an appropriations bill provision would limit the flags that could be flown at it and other federal agency buildings. Plus news on Medicare's amyloid PET NCD, reimbursement for new end-stage renal disease drugs, opioid disposal and what FDA can't use its user fees for in 2024. 

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Welcome to another edition of Supplemental Filings, where US-based Pink Sheet reporters offer bonus, quick-hit analysis and insight we think you should know about, but didn’t make it into full-length stories.

The Food and Drug Administration’s recruitment and diversity and inclusion efforts could take a hit thanks to a little noticed flag restriction that House

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