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2022 Drug Pricing Update: States Continue Legislative Push Even As Congress Passes Long Sought Changes

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States remain at the forefront of legislative efforts on a range of issues relating to drug pricing, such as increasing price transparency, capping out-of-pocket costs for insulin, and limiting certain PBM practices. These...more

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OIG Approves Loyalty Rewards Program in Supermarket Pharmacies

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In its last Advisory Opinion of 2019 (19-06), the OIG approved a proposed arrangement involving a retailer rewards program through which out-of-pocket costs on in-store pharmacy purchases would qualify customers for future...more

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CMS Finalizes Medicare Advantage and Part D Drug Pricing Rule

Earlier this month, CMS issued a final rule aimed at lowering drug prices and reducing out-of-pocket expenses in Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D. This rule is the Administration’s latest effort to address prescription...more

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HHS Proposes Rule to Eliminate Safe Harbor for PBM Drug Rebates

On February 6, 2019, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the “OIG”) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that, if made final in its...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Drug Pricing Legislation Sent to the President for Enactment into Law

Two pieces of related legislation that would prohibit so called “gag clauses” in contracts between pharmacists and health plans and pharmacy benefit managers (PBM’s) have been passed by both the Senate and the House....more

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K&L Gates Triage: Pharmacy Gag Clauses & Clawbacks

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Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are increasingly utilizing gag clauses in pharmacy contracts as a means of prohibiting pharmacies from telling customers that paying for drugs out of pocket would cost them less than if they...more

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