After 15 further drugs were announced as being opened up to price negotiation by the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the response from the Association for Accessible Medicines to the US Department of Health and Human Services was clear and unambiguous: the Inflation Reduction Act’s price negotiation scheme doesn’t work.
AAM Hits Out At ‘Flawed’ Medicare Price Negotiation List
Responding to the announcement by the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the 15 additional drugs that will soon be subject to price negotiation – including Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy – the Association for Accessible Medicines has called out the “short-sighted government price setting scheme” for undermining generic and biosimilar competition.
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