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Beyond Rebates: PhRMA Wants HHS To ‘De-Link’ Supply Chain Compensation From List Price

 
• By Cathy Kelly

Focus should not be limited to rebates in Medicare Part D, manufacturers advise in comments on HHS drug pricing blueprint. Pharmacy benefit managers raise anti-trust issues with shift to upfront discounts.

Newspaper Medicare Part D headline on money

HHS should look beyond restricting prescription drug rebates in Medicare Part D as a way to encourage lower list prices and focus instead on changes converting all the compensation provided to pharmacy benefit managers, wholesalers and pharmacies to a fee, according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

PhRMA offers what it describes as a “bold new policy position” in July 16 comments to HHS. The submission responds...

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