June 17, 2019 – The Trump administration’s final rule mandating that drug companies include the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) in direct-to-consumer (DTC) television ads for many drugs “exceeds [the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’)] statutory authority, violates the First Amendment, and should therefore be set aside,” according to a lawsuit filed Friday, less […]
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Jan. 29, 2019 — Although industry trade groups filing comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal to require including the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) in television ads for prescription drugs were largely agreed in their positions against the idea (as reported here), comments from physician organizations and specialty groups were more […]
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Dec. 17, 2018 – The Coalition for Healthcare Communication (CHC) finds the recent proposal to require drug list prices in direct-to-consumer (DTC) television ads “detrimental to the interests of both health providers and patients,” and raises numerous practical and legal concerns to support that position in its official comment filed Dec. 14 with the Centers […]
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Sept. 24, 2018 — With the amendment to fund the implementation of mandatory drug prices in consumer advertising stripped out of the spending bill to which it had been attached, the question of whether or how quickly this drug pricing mandate will move forward remains unclear. The amendment, from Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Charles […]
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Sept. 10, 2018 – Movement toward mandating that drug companies include product prices in consumer-directed ads continues this fall as Congress and the Trump administration push for greater transparency in drug pricing. On Aug. 23, the Senate voted to include an amendment sponsored by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to a spending […]
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Aug. 24, 2018 – Yesterday was a one-two punch in the Trump administration’s effort to move forward a plan to require that drug manufacturers include drug prices in ads directed toward consumers, as the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reviews a proposed rule from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) […]
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