Category: Drug Pricing

Drug Pricing

Drug Pricing

Medicare Negotiations Are Now the Law, but How to Implement Them?

Medicare Negotiations Are Now the Law, but How to Implement Them?

Oct. 18, 2022 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is beginning to establish a framework for the Medicare drug pricing negotiations mandated in the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a process that will be complicated and controversial. “Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act – including provisions to mandate Medicare negotiations on […]

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Drug Pricing

IQVIA Drug Spending Report: OOP Costs Increasing, but Net Prices Rising Below Inflation

IQVIA Drug Spending Report: OOP Costs Increasing, but Net Prices Rising Below Inflation

April 25, 2022 – With drug pricing a hot-button issue as the midterm elections draw near, a recent report from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science shines a spotlight on some of the nuances that often are missed when discussing the nuts and bolts of drug spending in the United States. One of the […]

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