Caught my eye… a weekly catch-all of stuff that I found important. Obviously big news this week was the release of the Medicare drug negotiation lists for 2026. I wrote about it and, I also appreciated Scott Gottlieb’s tweets (Xs?) on it If not this, then what? GOP plans for healthcare: AstraZeneca’s suit against the…

The 2026 list of Medicare negotiated drugs came out this morning and it’s a mad dash to dig in and get some sense of where this program might go. I imagine some companies (hi Astellas) are breathing a sigh of relief and others are glad they didn’t get hit worse. I found the information released…

On Tuesday we are expecting to learn what are the first drugs that will be negotiated as part of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) 2026 Medicare negotiation program. I use the word negotiated loosely. Last fall I did a lot of work looking at Part D spending files and patent expiration dates and expectations for…