State-based Reform
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340B, Caught my eye, Drug Prices, Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare Negotiation, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, State-based ReformCaught my eye — 05/24/24
Read more: Caught my eye — 05/24/24Coulda, woulda, shoulda. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary committee had a hearing on prescription drug prices. It became clear that comparisons to international prices remain a focus but so is patent abuse. I am not sure that’s a fair characterization. What companies are doing is legal and I’m not sure they’d be doing their fiduciary…
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Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Costs, ICER, Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Negotiation, Medicare Part D, State-based ReformCaught my eye — 4/12/24
Read more: Caught my eye — 4/12/24PDAB-adieu. This week Governor Youngkin vetoed a bill that would have established a prescription drug affordability board (PDAB) in the state. The PDAB would have had authority over state-sponsored and state-regulated health plans. Younkin said that the PDAB would have determined drug availability solely on cost rather than unique patient needs and the opinions of…
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Caught my eye — 3/29/24
Read more: Caught my eye — 3/29/24It has been a week of odds and ends so if you’re catching up after ignoring your emails, you didn’t miss a ton. Honestly, it seems like a good time to be a DC law firm working on pharmaceutical issues. You have the usual Inflation Reduction Act submissions, comment letters (which, for what it is…
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340B, Biosimilars, Caught my eye, Employers, Importation, Obesity, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, State-based ReformCaught my eye — 03/15/24
Read more: Caught my eye — 03/15/24It was one of those rare weeks in Washington, DC where the weather was just perfect. I mean not if you suffer from allergies, but for everyone else. Same Same. Last week we had the State of the Union, this week we had the President’s Budget release. For what it is worth, the budget is…
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Caught my eye — 2/23/24
Read more: Caught my eye — 2/23/24Gross to Net, a Saga. As soon as I saw Adam Fein’s Drug Channels article on Gross to Net in Part D redesign, I knew it would throw off my day. It was just catchy enough to cause a buzz and get the attention of Heads of Market Access at pharmaceutical companies and start the…
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Caught my eye, CMMI, Drug Prices, Inflation Reduction Act, Insulin, Medicare Negotiation, State-based ReformCaught my eye — 2/2/24
Read more: Caught my eye — 2/2/24It is a dumb bucket list thing but one day I will go experience the Groundhog Day festivities. Dream big, I know. Cell and Gene Update. This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) released the Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Access model which will initially focus on sickle cell disease. It is…
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340B, Alzheimer’s, Caught my eye, Drug Prices, Drug shortages, Medicare Advantage, State-based ReformCaught my eye — 1/26/24
Read more: Caught my eye — 1/26/24It has been fun to see the year really start to kick off this week with a bunch of policy releases. Shortages. Generic shortages are caused by a myriad of factors, but a big piece is the race to the bottom for prices. A fraction of a penny less and a contract shifts to another…
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Another bite at the apple
Read more: Another bite at the appleIt used to be that pharmaceutical manufacturers had to worry (mostly) about federal health policy. Every few years manage through a big piece of legislation from Congress and then the regulation on Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and any regulation that came out of the legislation. But over the past few years, the drug…
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