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EU excessive pricing laws
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It has been a busy year for issues related to drug pricing, and with the election around the corner, litigation issues that have been developing over the last few years are likely to be a key focus for the second half of...more
ANDA litigation is a high-stakes niche of pharmaceutical law that presents unique challenges not only for lawyers, but also for eDiscovery practitioners. Here’s why: under the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term...more
On September 5, 2023, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) published its report titled Medicare Part D: CMS Should Monitor Effects of Rebates on Plan Formularies and Beneficiary Spending.The report...more
The Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) was passed just over a year ago with a goal of lowering high drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries and reducing costs incurred by Medicare. A central piece to achieving the IRA’s goal of...more
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) includes the most dramatic change to U.S. drug price regulation in history. The new law allows the federal government to “negotiate” the price of many drugs dispensed to Medicare...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit revived an antitrust suit alleging that a pharmaceutical manufacturer illegally maintained its monopoly for its innovator drug by precluding competition beyond the expiration...more
With Big Pharma pressing the limits in promoting and pricing prescription medications, patients and their advocates long have hoped that generic drugs might be difference-makers on costs and practices. Those positive wishes,...more
Recently, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb issued a statement (the statement) outlining a new policy to improve access and foster price competition for branded drugs that are...more
With the opportunity for global pharmaceutical companies to gain new access to the Chinese market presenting itself like never before, significant news broke on December 7, 2018, regarding a newly implemented pilot...more
Following a truncated August recess, the House and the Senate returned to Washington after Labor Day with a full plate of legislative items to address prior to the end of the fiscal year on September 30. That list includes...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last month handed manufacturers and wholesalers of off-patent drugs a victory by ruling that Maryland’s anti-price gouging act violates the U.S. Constitution’s dormant commerce...more
On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a workshop seeking to explore the general question of why the cost of prescription drugs has risen greatly in recent history. The Workshop was framed...more
As prescription drug pricing continues to dominate political headlines, state legislatures are taking action intended to lower drug prices for health plans and patients. Despite industry opposition, California has enacted a...more
For years, states and the federal government focused their drug pricing enforcement efforts on higher priced and more expensive branded drugs. Not surprisingly, private qui tam lawyers followed on the coattails of these...more
With opioid abuse continuing to dominate national headlines, manufacturers of opioid overdose medications are facing intense scrutiny over pricing practices that threaten (or those perceived as threatening) public...more
In furtherance of the government’s efforts to bring down healthcare costs, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT.), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Mike Lee (R-UT) have introduced the Creating and Restoring Equal...more
Since 2014, drug pricing has grown in importance in health care policy conversations. From Gilead Sciences’s Hepatitis C treatment costing $84,000 per course of treatment to Turing Pharmaceutical’s 5,000 percent price hike of...more
Those working in the pharmaceutical space are used to hearing complaints about the high costs of drugs, and patents often are blamed for allowing pharmaceutical companies to charge “too much” for their products. But are drug...more