A Deal on Drug Prices Undone by White House Insistence on ‘Trump Cards’
fter months of heated accusations and painstaking negotiations, the White House and the pharmaceutical industry neared agreement late last month
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Comparing Patient OOP Spending for Specialty Drugs in Medicare Part D and Employer-Sponsored Insurance
Per capita spending on specialty drugs increased 55% between 2014 and 2018. Individuals aged 55 to 75 years using specialty
Read moreTrump’s last-ditch drug pricing moves could help him in November. But they likely won’t save Americans money
With 50 days to go before the 2020 election, President Trump is taking his wildest swing yet at the pharmaceutical
Read more340B Action Heats Up: New Developments From the Courts, Administration and Drug Makers
In the courts, in the Administration and in drug maker initiatives, action on the Section 340B prescription drug discount program
Read moreSharing drug rebates with Medicare Part D patients: Why and how
High prescription drug prices are often cited as a key concern in public opinion polls; what patients pay frequently reflects a drug’s list
Read moreTrump Issues Expansive Order Aimed at Lowering Drug Prices
President Trump on Sunday issued a far-reaching executive order aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, but the pharmaceutical
Read moreWith election looming, Trump releases major, last-ditch drug pricing order
President Trump released an executive order Sunday that would drastically cut how much Medicare pays for virtually all of the
Read moreKeep the government out of pharmaceutical drug manufacturing
Earlier this month, the California legislature passed a bill that would make the Golden State the first in the nation
Read moreDo big nonprofit hospitals spend more on charity care than for-profits? This study says no
Large for-profit hospitals spend more on charitable services as a percent of total expenses than their nonprofit counterparts, according to
Read moreWhy Do CVS And Express Scripts Rely on Secretive Private Companies to Run Their Copay Maximizer Programs? (rerun)
In Copay Maximizers Are Displacing Accumulators—But CMS Ignores How Payers Leverage Patient Support, I explained a new Centers for Medicare
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