How The IRA Factored Into Akebia’s Price For Vafseo

Enrollment in the new Medicare Prescription Payment Plan was lower than expected in the first year and well below CMS expectations, and invoicing data indicates members are slow to pay.

A former CMS official suggested the most likely way it could happen is through a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation demonstration.

At the Bank of America health care conference, pharma leaders speculated on the impact of Trump’s most favored nation pricing executive order on US and European markets.

New draft guidance on the third cycle of Medicare drug price negotiations goes against Merck and BMS expectations for their cancer drugs. The guidance also tackles Part B and renegotiated prices for the first time.