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Mintz IRA Update — Operationalizing the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan and Medicare Inflation Rebate Program
In addition to the Part D Benefit Redesign, the IRA’s Medicare Prescription Payment Plan (MPPP) went into effect beginning January 1, 2025. The ...
Senate bill seeks to make prescription drugs more affordable for Americans
No American should ever have to risk their health by skipping refills or rationing life-saving medication because they can’t afford it.' ...
CVS says blaming drug middlemen for higher prices is ‘deceptive rhetoric’
CVS’s stock soared toward a three-month high after its quarterly profit beat expectations by the widest margin in more than four years.
Gillibrand proposes new bill to lower prescription drug prices
Washington — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced new legislation that would, as she says, make prescription drugs more ...
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
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An Arm and a Leg: How do you deal with wild drug prices?
Prices for brand-name drugs in the U.S. are three times what the same drugs cost in other countries. And in a recent KFF survey, 3 in 10 adults reported not taking their medicine as prescribed at some ...
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A new, non-opioid pain drug is here. Getting it to patients could be agony.
After decades of research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals now has an approved pain medication. Can one of the world’s most powerful ...
Pharmacy benefit management unicorn Capital Rx hits $3.5 billion in revenue with a different approach to drug pricing as Congress targets middlemen
Healthcare startup Capital Rx seeing revenue surge as Congress seeks to regulate the PBM giants that profit from high drug ...
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Drug Costs and Their Impact on Care: Insights from Medicare Patients and Providers
Providers are sympathetic to Medicare enrollees’ concerns but don’t agree on their role in helping patients find less costly ...
The FDA just approved a new painkiller. Is it too good to be true?
Meet suzetrigine, a non-opioid that promises to avoid addiction risk. But some experts say it can't replace opioids ...
States Eye Canadian Drug Imports Despite Delays, Tariffs (1)
State leaders are reviving talk of importing prescription drugs from Canada, even as US drugmakers and health-care attorneys ...
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Tariffs could impact cost of prescription medications; 80% of ingredients made overseas
Around 80 percent of common medications prescribed in the U.S. have active ingredients sourced overseas, including China.